Kwasi Thompson, former Minister of State for Finance in the Minnis administration, questioned why such funds had not been put to better use.
seed funding from the gov ernment for this year’s Junkanoo parades on Bay Street.About $30,000 will be going to groups; Cul ture Minister Mario Bowleg said beginning yesterday, groups will start receiving in ration upcoming parades.“Beginning today, of The Baha
mas and my ministry will officially present groups $928,500 SEED MONEY FOR JUNKANOO
Belinda Wilson spoke after the union and the government signed the agreement — which had been outstanding for three years — at the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday.
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THE government’s travel spending yesterday ignited further Opposition attacks after it was revealed that the total $11.8m outlay for the 2021-2022 fiscal year exceeded Budget alloca tions by 11.1 percent.
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Watchorn, the group’s president and chief executive, said it had to “move on” from its attempt to acquire the property after a proposed settlement did not receive unanimous acceptance.
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GOVERNMENT will Junkanoo groups on Bay Street after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19Representativespandemic.of more than 30 Junkanoo groups gathered at the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture on University Boulevard yesterday where they signed contracts to receive
TEACHERS at Thelma Gibson Primary School walked out of classes yesterday in anger after an alleged altercation between the school’s principal and a teacher a day earlier. See PAGE TWO for the full story.
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failed despite the latter “giving it a real go”.
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“And I must say that we agreed to a three-year agreement from 2022 to 2025 and we did that really unwillingly, but to move things forward,” the BUT president said.
The details were con tained in the Ministry of Finance’s just released
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The last agreement expired on June 30, 2018.
BISHOP Hanchell book page which shared his strong views on marital rape. His comments were criticised by a local activ ist yesterday, who said his views were “disgusting,
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Walter Hanchell of Great Com mission Ministries recently called marital rape a “nonissue” as he argued a woman does not have the right to withhold sex from her husband “except for prayer and fasting.” Bishop
THE government and the Bahamas Union of Teachers signed an indus trial agreement yesterday that includes salary and increment increases as well as expanded health insur anceHowever,coverage.the union’s president said while her members are pleased the deal has been inked, the retention bonus is “insufficient”.
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they are “in fear for their lives” as a man working on the campus allegedly made some “threatening remarks
“So, the teachers are in fear for their lives - they’re threatened. So we’ve asked them to gather together, make sure to sign in and gather together, stay together until the union is able to get there to assist them. And we’ve asked them to sign out at 12 noon and go home for their safety.”While at the school, The Tribune saw a group on campus inside the school gate. Police were also pre sent on the scene.
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MONDAY has been declared a national holi day in observance of the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, the Cabi net Office announced yesterday.Thecountry’s former head of state died last Thursday at her summer residence in Scotland. She was 96.
Ms Hanna Martin said the issue at CC Sweeting
Teachers walk out at Thelma Gibson
Mrs Wilson said teach ers at the school have had “enough”.“They’re tired of being mistreated and spoken to in a condescending manner and treated unfairly. So it happens that the day that they were to present the petition and the griev ance to the principal, this incident happened,” she claimed.
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On the sidelines of an event yesterday, Mrs Wilson explained teachers were outside the campus because
Her son Charles is the new British monarch.
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was asked about teachers being outside and went on to explain what they have been asked to do.
was due to Bahamas Power and“WhenLight. your light goes off - it’s BPL okay. CC Sweeting was BPL. It’s very important that we do not go all over the place - I’m not being disrespectful. We cannot go all over the place with narratives. CC Sweeting was BPL – it was a transformer - and that was circumstances beyond any one’s control.
Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) president Belinda Wilson said the teacher has made a police report and the majority of the teachers at the school supportWhenher.The Tribune visited the campus in Elizabeth Estates yesterday, several teachers were seen standing near the school’s gate, call ing for the principal to be removed.Yesterday, CSP Chrislyn Skippings confirmed that a teacher at the school has filed a complaint, but said she did not know the specif ics of the report.
“In the case of Stephen Dillet, I’m told that it was one of the pumps that failed, they went this morn ing, and they’ve replaced the pump. Okay, so the
“. . .So, we hope, I’ve sent a full report to everybody actually to the minister, the permanent secretary, the minister of national security, the union’s law yers last evening, very late last evening, along with a petition that has a number of signatures not only of teachers and teachers aides, but staff on the campus and parents. So we hope that for the smooth operations of Thelma Gibson Primary School that the Ministry of Education will see fit to remove Mrs Daxon.”
toward them in support of the principal” on Monday.
“The teacher has made a police report (regarding the altercation),” Mrs Wilson said. “The union’s lawyers will be getting that report from the Elizabeth Estate Police Station today. The teacher will not drop the charges. She will stick to it. She is supported by the majority of the teachers at the school and in fact, we’ve had numerous complaints and concerns about Mrs Daxon.”Shesaid this is not the first issue the union has had with the school’s principal Olivia Daxon.
TEACHERS at Thelma Gibson Primary School held a walkout yesterday.
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“The teachers are outside the campus because they are in fear for their lives. Because there’s a gentle man that’s working on the campus who allegedly made some threatening remarks toward them in support of the principal yesterday,” Mrs Wilson said.
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evening. They are being reviewed with a view to understanding what the issues are and to bring quickHowever,resolution.she did not know the specifics of the claims.“Yes, I’ve heard that there’s an issue at Thelma Gibson and we have asked for reports from BEMU, which is the managers union, which represents principal, and from BUT, which represents the teacher or teachers who are engaged in or involved in any concerns or disputes and we are analysing those as we “Thespeak.incident was yester day, we got them, I think, late last night. And so the ministry will determine the best way forward to be. We cannot afford disruptions. I’ve just explained that in such detail. We cannot afford disruption. The greatest levels of absentee ism, we saw based on the statistics that I saw, came from primary schools. This is very Askedserious.”iftheprincipal was barred from entering the school, the minister replied: “I have no information on the specific details other than the report that we have gotten and that is under review.”
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THE SCENE at Thelma Gibson Primary School after yesterday’s walkout.
TEACHERS at Thelma Gibson Primary School walked out of classes yes terday in anger after an alleged altercation between the school’s principal and a teacher a day earlier.
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EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said a failed pump that led to plumbing issues at Stephen Dillet Primary School has beenThereplaced.issue caused the school to be dismissed early onThisMonday.came less than a week after school was dis missed early at CC Sweeting Senior High School due to electricity issues.
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THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force intercepted a 37ft American registered Contender vessel with 67 kilos of suspected cocaine onboard 18 miles north of Exuma yesterday.
The detained craft and occupants were cautioned and the vessel was taken intoOfficialscustody.said the vessel and its occupants will be taken to the RBDF base in Coral Harbour and turned over to the relevant author ities for further processing.
pump’s been replaced. It’s a thing and the thing broke down, and it’s been replaced. But all the schools are open, all the children in school, and I wish we did concentrate on how we can move forward, our young people.”Shehad also previously said that officials will test students for learning loss in early October so they will have a better understanding of COVID’s true impact on education in The Bahamas. Asked for an update on this, she said plans for this to be carried out are still being worked on.
In a separate interview, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin explained reports have been sub mitted, one late Monday
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin speaking to the press yesterday.
the negotiation process.
TEACHER’S LAWSUIT OVER STUDENT ATTACK DISMISSED
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
This signing comes after the Bahamas Edu cators Managerial Union (BEMU) and Bahamas Educators, Counsellors and Allied Workers Union (BECAWU) both signed industrial agreements.
say to officials at the Min istry and the Department of Education that you are to adhere to this agreement just as the Bahamas Union of Teachers will do our best to adhere to the agree ment and the breaches must cease immediately.”
“So we (are) talking about the Acklins, Crooked Island, Mayaguana, Inagua. Those islands that do not have the banks readily available. They do not have the flights that leave daily. They do not have the level of medical care or hospi tals or clinics up to par. So we try to ensure that they would get an additional allowance to assist them
On the sideline of the event, Mrs Wilson was asked if she was satisfied with the agreement signed. She answered: “We’re pleased with the agreement. And I think what gives us even more pleasure is that it’s a three year agreement. So in short order, we’ll be back at the table.”
State Public Service Min ister Pia Glover-Rolle made it clear that no grouping of teachers has been disen franchised in this exercise.
government in a tangible way to demonstrate the respect, the regard, and the placement of teachers and our national develop ment. And I trust that this marks the beginning of cordial and productive rela tions between the Bahamas Union of Teachers and the Ministry of Education as we move forward with our singular interests, which is advancing the cause of education in this country and causing for our young people to find a place of restoration after such a very challenging and dif ficult time that they have gone through,” Ms Hanna Martin said.
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She added: “I think since then they have increased the police complement, because that’s a big school, they have a senior high and a junior high, and they’ve
lunch vendor who witnessed the attack, corroborated Mr Darville’s story calling the pavilion a “hot spot” for deviant behaviour.
Asked if she thinks the agreement will help encour age retention of teachers, Mrs Wilson replied: “In order for teachers to be retained, I would say a retention bonus of $3,000 in one instance, $2,250 in another instance, and $1,500 in the next instance is insufficient - but we agreed. What will retain teachers is when persons at the Min istry of Education and the Department of Education, monitor, police and adhere to the agreement that we are signing, when teachers feel as if they are respected and that they are cared for that is more important than a few dollars,” she said.
with their day to day work.”
teaching evening art classes for special functions, teach ing and selling pottery, creating costume designs for carnival and Junkanoo along with freelance inte riorSeniordecorating.Justice Indra Charles moved to dismiss Mr Darville’s legal chal lenge as his case was an isolated incident. She said the complainant failed to prove the attack was rea sonably foreseeable, giving the fact that past attacks at the pavilion were between students.Despite Mr Darville losing his lawsuit, Justice Charles did not order the complainant to pay costs, stating that as the com plainant suffered injuries at work his claim was neither “frivolous nor vexatious”.
“We don’t want to turn the school campus into a military place, because young people need to have some level of natu ral energy. But what we are seeing is so serious, so serious, that we have to take very strong meas ures, and we have to send
properly, and there are handheld devices. But we may have to look at what we’ve been saying to the government for a long time, you may need to have a more sophisticated X-ray machine or detector for stu dents. Because if you have the handheld, and you’re not able to find the weap ons that they would have in their bags, or on their person, then you need to take the technology up a notch.”TheBUT president said
By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net
“The Bahamas Union of Teachers - we presented to the government a 20 per cent salary increase over a three-year period. During our negotiations, we then reduced that to 19.40 per cent over the three-year period. We agreed with the government on a 15 percent salary increase over a three-year period, which will be paid in the first year. There will be two increments, an increase of two increments, which is $116.66 plus your normal increment.“Inthe second year, it’s an increase of one incre ment, which is $700 plus your normal increment. And in the third year, again, it’s two increments plus the normal increment. Yes, we are here today because we agreed. We had meetings with our thousands of mem bers, we had eight meetings actually over the period of time to ensure that the members were pleased and
concerned about the stab bing, however, she believes there has been a great effort by the government to strengthen safety on school campuses.Whenasked if she was aware of there being CCTV and metal detectors on school campuses following Mr Anderson’s comments, Ms Wilson raised questions on the matter.
they support police on school campuses adding that having even more police presence is always important.“Wecan only do so much with the police, with secu rity, with the teachers, with the administrators, with the prefects, with the heads of departments. But parents, you have to do your part. You have to do your part. And it’s paramount that you find out what your chil dren are doing,” Ms Wilson added.
a strong signal. And par ents, you know, have to also be vigilant because these children are leaving their homes. That doesn’t mean they’re leaving with weapons. But somewhere along the way those chil dren are ending up on the campus with weapons and we need all hands on deck.”CCTV cameras were able to record the stabbing inci dent according to Julian Anderson, deputy director of technology and school management.Heconfirmed to report ers that Anatol Rodgers is equipped with CCTV cameras and metal detec tors, which allowed for the footage of the incident to be reviewed. He also under scored that several schools, including Anatol Rodgers, have had metal detectors for some time now.
“So I am very pleased that we are able as a
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“So we would hope that this agreement would not only increase salaries and benefits. But it will also
increased the complement to account for the junior high or the senior, which ever one so that there’s full coverage at that school.
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The student was taken to the hospital after the incident.MsHanna Martin spoke to reporters about the stab bing yesterday, noting that the incident at the high school signalled some “dis turbing circumstances” within the country.
EDUCATION Minis ter Glenys Hanna Martin revealed yesterday that police have increased their presence at Anatol Rodgers High School in the after math of a recent stabbing incident that left a student in Accordinghospital. to police, a 14-year-old boy was stabbed during an argu ment with another male student on Monday.
Education Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin was pleased that the agreement had been “Teacherssigned.are critical stakeholders in our national development, never more so than now, particularly after the pandemic, which has really wrought a ter rible cost on education on so many levels, with our young people, and also with teachers who have had to go into a virtual reality at a moment’s notice and with the isolation that came with virtual education,” she said.
Ms Hanna Martin had previously said that officials are in the process of hiring teachers as they seek to address shortages in critical areas in core subjects.
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“We have to now ana lyse how is it with all of our efforts that a boy could come on to the campus, if he did, we’re not sure how the knife was obtained, to see how he came with a knife if he did, and if he didn’t, how he was able to access a weapon of that nature, and to be able to do violence to another student.”
She said her ministry is working actively with the Ministry of National Secu rity to review the incident and the additional meas ures needed to be taken.
Ms Symonette also said she witnessed attacks on a security guard, and other students as well.
agreed for us to accept the 15 percent that we have accepted.”Shecontinued: “In addi tion to the salary increases we negotiated in 2012, and I’m proud to have been the person that negotiated medical insurance for our members, so we’ve now had that medical insur ance extended to include dental and vision services. We have gotten increases in housing allowance and responsibility allowances and as the lead negotiator from the other side said there was a focus on those southern islands.
Ms Wilson said: “There are some schools that have cameras, we don’t know if they’re working or working
Six years after the ordeal, Mr Darville says he still experiences pain and weak ness in his left shoulder and arm.He sued the minister responsible for education and the Attorney Gen eral for negligence. The basis of this accusation is that he says they failed to ensure that security officers were stationed at the lunch pavilion.MrDarville said because of his injuries he no longer earns extra income by
A TEACHER had his lawsuit dismissed by a Supreme Court judge yes terday after he tried to sue the Ministry of Education for injuries he received on being attacked by SC McPherson students in 2016.Desmond Darville, while invigilating grade 9 BJC examinations on May 30, 2016, was attacked by stu dents under a school lunch pavilion.Inaddition to students hurling gay slurs at Mr Dar ville, the complainant said that he suffered a broken shoulder after they hit him withNioshibottles.Symonette, a
Mrs Wilson spoke about
For her part, President of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) Belinda Wilson said teachers were
INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE AT SCHOOL AFTER STABBING
BUT president Belinda Wilson alongside Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin.
Since the previous industrial agreement in 2018, this completed agreement addresses issues such as increases in salary and allow ances and expansion of dental and vision health insurance coverage.
“Immigration, because they work hand in hand, is in that same figure. So, any value propo sition has to take into account that this is the engine that drives the fiscal side of the government’s operations. And so, you cannot put it down to a simple value, because whatever we provide, we know, in our own discussions, you know, I have responsibility directly for Customs and I tell them all the time, what we pay them is not enough for the efforts they
Thedo.”contract will expire July 2025.
“The ministry remains committed to the growth and development of Junkanoo. So we are here today to tell you, let’s get started in your preparation to ensure that the Bahamian people will, once again with the greatest show on earth, return to Bay Street,” Mr Bowleg said.
government, work for yourselves and work for your families.”
Earlier this year, the Davis administration signed new labour contracts with about five different unions, including the Bahamas Nurses Union, the Public Man agers Union, the Bahamas Educators, Counsellors and Allied Workers Union and yester day the Bahamas Teachers Union.
“We’d like to thank the Davis administration for putting, not just a vote of confidence, but a finan cial injection for all groups to participate in these parades,” he said.
of Junkanoo Corporation New Providence (JCNP), said despite the difficul ties within the Junkanoo community, he is excited to have the support of the government and other stakeholders.“IknowIjust got a mes sage from one of the group leaders and he started to tell Ellery (Junkanoo co-ordi nator), ‘The money reach, but it ain’t on the bank account yet.’ But the JCNP is pleased to be here today to represent our member groups as we prepare to get back to Bay Street after a two and half year break due to COVID,” he said.
This comes three years after category A-groups Music Makers and Prodi gal Sons made the decision to scrap participation in the 2019 New Year’s Day Jun kanoo parade saying seed funding from the govern ment at the time was simply insufficient and forced their choice to sit out.
The Boxing Day and New Year’s parades were put on hold in 2020 due to the pandemic.
with their seed funding, which include New Provi dence and the Family Islands, with a total budget of some $928,500,” he said.
Mr Smith expressed his grati tude to union members and encouraged them to remain moti vated. “To the staff of customs and immigration who sometimes have difficulty with us and how we handle business in the union, I want to thank you for your patience,” he said. “We continue simply to say work, work for the
committed them to re-establishing “harmonious” working relation ships across the nation.
Dion Miller, chairman
$928,500 SEED MONEY FOR JUNKANOO from page one
Photos: Austin Fernander
MINISTER of Economic Affairs Michael Halkitis at yesterday’s signing.
“In terms of increases, in the first year, we are looking at least one increment in terms of an increase, one increment, plus a normal increment. The second year, they are offering two increments, plus the normal increment, and then in the third year, one increment plus the nominal increment.”
“I know one thing, the Bahamian people are ready to see Junkanoo back on Bay Street and I know that Junkanoo is ready to get back on Bay Street. We as a government definitely want to ensure that we continue our protocols to ensure that Junkanoo will be on Bay Street come Boxing Day and New Year’s. So, the stakeholders will see some adjustments made to Jun kanoo as it relates to what it was in the past, due to COVID,” said Mr Bowleg.
THE government signed a new three-year industrial agree ment with the Bahamas Customs, Immigration and Allied Work ers Union (BCIAW) yesterday, approximately valued at $8m.
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Three-year agreement signed with Customs and Immigration
climate, Minister Glover-Rolle said the government is ensuring labour issues are addressed “expe ditiously”, as they have taken into consideration the importance of workers in the nation, but most especially after coming out of a crisis in the gration,importancelandscape,immigrationspokecialresentscurrently,ernmentexplainedYesterday,pandemic.MrsGlover-Rollethatalthoughthegovisunabletodomoretherecentsigningrepa“firststep”.Inattendancewasthefinansecretary,SimonWilson,whoofthevalueofcustomsandworkers.“Ifyouunderstandthefiscalyouunderstandtheofcustomsandimmiintermsofwhatthey
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
In March of this year, Mr Bowleg said the gov ernment anticipated an increase in the operational budget of the Junkanoo parades when they returned to Bay Street this year to pay for enhanced safety measures.Whenasked at the time about a possible increase in seed funding to Jun kanoo groups — some of whom had complained about reduced donations due to the COVID-19 eco nomic slump — Mr Bowleg said he did not anticipate the government giving out more money in this regard.
Despite the country’s fiscal
He said his ministry as well as other stakeholders, including the Junkanoo Corporation New Provi dence (JCNP), and the National Junkanoo Com mittee (NJC), will meet to ensure proper protocols are followed during the upcom ing Boxing Day and New Year’s Day parades.
PUBLIC Service Minister Pia Glover-Rolle speaking yesterday.
With a union membership of some 1,300 members, president of BCIAW Sloan Smith spoke to the “marginal” increases that will be implemented as a result of the new“Thisagreement.agreement has a number of things in it, primarily, we’re looking at the increase during a difficult time, the government is offering marginal increases, if I may say it that way. Though marginal, it is something that the membership accepted.
“That has been evident since day one when we took adminis tration,” she said yesterday at the pressSheconference.added:“By welcoming our trade unions back to the table immediately, by reforming and establishing an industrial rela tions unit that was ready to work on day one - that works around the clock, and has ensured that we have been successful in signing to date before year one is here, five industrial agreements, and that speaks to our administration’s commitment to labour and har monious labour relations.”
BCIAW president Sloan Smith at yesterday’s industrial agreement signing.
bring for the government and rev enue. Customs generates directly and indirectly, one and a half bil lion dollars a year for revenue.
“It has been a difficult time for us as a Junkanoo community, we have lost many of our legends in almost every group we have been in touch with, we have not been spared. So this year will be in memorial of those legends that we’ve all lost. The JCNP is excited to get back to the road, we’re excited for the future and our prospects with our partnership with the gov ernment, we’re excited to work with the minister, the NJC and all persons who want to do good and right by us as Junkanooers. And so the time is now. To the Shell Saxon Superstars, we officially serve notice, it is time to defend your title, it is time to get back to Bay Street guys,” Mr Miller said.
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Last month, State Public Ser vice Minister Pia Glover-Rolle said the government was aiming to sign at last four new industrial agreements before the anniver sary of its first year in office.
Brennen, a representative for the Valley Boys, expressed his gratitude for the seed funding and the long-awaited return to Bay Street this year.
Just a few days shy of the gov ernment’s first year in office, Mrs Glover-Rolle said the govern ment’s Blueprint for Change had
charge them storage. Now as far as this is concerned, these stuff that’s left here were donated to us by Bahamas Striping (Group of Companies)and so for someone to come in this church,” he added.
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Before Hurricane Dorian decimated them in 2019, shanty towns across Abaco had more than 1,000 homes and an estimated popula tion size of 3,500, according to government reports.
Supt Pinder said all the victims were transported to Rand Memorial Hospital.
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
Supt Pinder said according to preliminary investigations the driver of the red Nissan Cube was travelling west along the highway when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with the Honda, which was traveling east.
“This is so very nasty and vicious of the devil,” he said.Bishop Mills said the unexpected search came after Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander visited him on Friday, allegedly inquiring about some kitchen cabinets.
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The Abaco resident said his reputation spoke for itself, insisting he was no thief and that his conscience was
throughout the entire Com monwealth and even in built up areas in The Baha mas and some middle class subdivisions and so I’m told that there is a demolition order of a building on West Bay Street and so the issue of enforcements with Min istry of Works’ approval process for building which is directed after all towards the safety of people occupy ing them is a matter for the Ministry of Works to push aggressively.”MrMunroe also said: “We’re in a hurricane zone. Hurricane Dorian made it quite clear to all that if we do not have safe build ings, there can be disastrous results and so the remit of the Ministry of Works is to ensure that all buildings are up to code and the only way that you can know if they’re up to code is if you submit the plans and they’re approved.“There are also issues of pattern of develop ment because the overall town planning and scheme of development is at the control of the central government and so the government will move to enforce all of its laws.”
The child died at the hospital of serious inju ries sustained in the traffic accident on East Sunrise Highway shortly after 6pm.
THE SCENE of the crash on East Sunrise Highway. Photos: Denise Maycock/Tribune Staff
He said in view of these findings, it will now be up to the relevant agencies to decide whether to revoke those leases.
Mr Munroe made the comments when asked to confirm reports about the government, specifically the Immigration Department, establishing a task force to deal with shanty towns on the“Iisland.know the task force that’s being led by the new agency to be set up - BOWEN (the Bahamas Wildlife Enforcement Net work) - went down to assess the activities in the Pine Forest which is in my remit and it found that a number of developments were on private land or on Crown land that was leased,” Mr Munroe said before yester day’s Cabinet meeting.
storage for church members and for the DRA.
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HANCHELL: WIVES DO NOT HAVE RIGHT TO WITHHOLD SEX
While it is not clear how many shanty towns are now present on the island, the numbers are said to be growing on a regular basis.
BISHOP Silbert Mills has condemned what he calls a “nasty attack” levelled against him after police reportedly searched his church in Abaco.
“Iclear.have no fear. If the government thinks or some one from the police thinks
that no government or leg islator has the authority to change the law of the “Most High.”He continued: “Marital rape is a non-issue and is a part of the evil plans of CEDAW and the United Nations, who have their deceived agents in place around the world attempt ing to change the laws of God on marriage, homo sexuality and gender identity.”Inhis post, Bishop Hanchell called on fellow religious leaders, insisting that they “get some balls and straighten out their jelly backs” and speak out.
This is the second traffic fatality for the island this year, a senior police official reported.Superintendent of Police Alphonso Pinder, of the Police Traffic Division, reported that the police control room received a report of an accident on East Sunrise Highway, just east of Churchill Drive.
When The Tribune arrived at the scene after 7pm, portions of the high way near the accident were still cordoned while officers conducted their investigations.SuptPinder said police believe speed was a factor. There was also some inclement weather.
“We are asking motor ists to adhere to the speed limit on Grand Bahama. We know we are in Hurri cane season and the roads are wet. And that coupled with speed is a dangerous combination.“Weshould be driv ing more cautiously more than ever because of the weather condition. And so, we admonish you to adhere to the rules and regula tions and speed limit of the streets,” he said.
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dangerous, and rife with hatred.”“There’s no such thing as marital rape in the Bible or on our law books,” Bishop Hanchell said. “A woman does not have the right to withhold sex from her hus band, except for prayer and fasting, if he agrees. Like wise a man. Sexual relations is a key part of the mar riage covenant. Those that hate sex or don’t love their partners should never get married.“Aman has absolutely no right to physically or sexually abuse his wife. I believe that when you get to the point that your wife doesn’t want you sexually, you should bow out grace fully rather than forcing her, even though you have a right to her body.”
that there was something inappropriate, bring the cuffs and take me up there and I will answer every question and provide every detail,” he said. “It is clear that the equipment that was here was held in storage for theBishopDRA.”Mills is the owner of the Bahamas Christian Network, a broadcasting station in Abaco that pro vides news for the island.
When asked if the child was wearing a seatbelt, he said police are not able to say at this time and are still conducting their investigations.Heurged motorists to obey the speed limit and other rules of the road.
“Officers from Traffic Department responded to that call and on arrival dis covered that an accident had occurred at the location involving two vehicles - a red-coloured Nissan Cube and a charcoal-coloured Honda Accord,” he told The Tribune
When contacted for comment on the bishop’s controversial views, Equal ity Bahamas director Alicia Wallace said: “Hanchell’s comments are vile, rooted in the violent idea that women are less than human and become the property of men if they choose to marry. Dangerously, given
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repatriate all of the irregu lar“Whenmigrants.we did the opera tion in Bonefish Pond and Harold and Wilson Pond, immigration was along and did find some irregular migrants so I don’t know about an immigration task force.”This comes amid mount ing concern about the increasing number of illegal communities springing up in InAbaco.a recent interview with The Tribune, North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish said the reported number of shanty towns there were “alarming”.Healso expressed sup port for the creation of a special task force to deal with the issue, saying the time for action was now.
“That addresses every sit uation. We gave the police a copy of the messages that were in my phone from 2020, authorising us to store the kitchen equipment.”
He said both drivers were not seriously injured, how ever, a male child passenger in the rear of the Nissan Cube sustained severe inju ries about the body.
He is also the head pastor of Friendship Tabernacle Church, having served in that role for some 18 years.
his position as a religious leader and the vague refer ences he made to God, he is misleading people who trust and depend on others to read and interpret reli gious“Hetext.conflates his misogy nistic beliefs about marriage with the law of The Baha mas — a secular state that must not impose religion on anyone — and it is the law, not the religious beliefs of a group of people, that we are changing,” she said.
KILLED AND TWO HURT IN GRAND BAHAMA COLLISION
Some observers have said it was hypocritical for the government to demol ish the Abaco domes which were largely being occupied by Bahamians and yet not address the shanty town issue.Yesterday, Mr Munroe was asked to respond to the criticism.However, he claimed “No Bahamians lived in the domes”.“The Bahamians who lived in the domes were paid money to be relocated. I am told that there was just somebody running a bar out of one of them so the Bahamian government didn’t demolish any of the domes being occupied by any“TheBahamians.issue of irregu lar building is something
seized from Bishop Mill’s church by police last week. However, the official could not offer any addi tionalAddressingdetails. the reports on Facebook yesterday, Bishop Mills expressed disappointment over what had taken place and the rumours being circulated to taint his Takingname.viewers on a tour of his church, Bishop Mills showed different supplies he claimed he either bought or received from NGOs post-Dorian.Healso revealed that some housing items, par ticularly mattresses, were also placed in his church for
Bishop Hanchell argued that “rape laws are not for husbands and wives” and
Commissioner Fernander did not respond to a request for comment up to press time.
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The activist stressed there should not be a debate on the need for legal protec tion from the violent act of rape.On Friday, Social Services and Urban Development Minister Obie Wilchcombe said the government is currently reviewing draft legislation that addresses the issue of marital rape and is hoping to receive feedback “from all sides” concerning the proposed legislation.
A BOY is dead and two other people were injured following a two-car colli sion yesterday evening in Grand Bahama.
“That is an issue for Ministry of Works and the Office of the Attor ney General as to whether or not their leases are to be revoked. If they’re not being used properly, if there are immigration issues then the Department of Immigration would oper ate to make sure it is able to identify, apprehend and
The local religious leader went live on social media shortly after reports circu lated that his church had been searched by authori ties for Hurricane Dorian supplies owned by the Disaster Reconstruction Authority.Agovernment official confirmed the reports to this newspaper yesterday, saying some items were
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said investigations con ducted by law enforcement officials on Abaco found that a number of unregu lated communities on the island were on leased pri vate or Crown land.
permission and we have all of the information, where some have been through looking, deep looking into our church and taking pho tographs and don’t have the story behind it.
Bishop claims ‘nasty attack’ as he says police searched church
“Now upstairs where they went and took these beds,” he said. “I am going upstairs now where some one who had no permission to go went and they went through and through this place and taking pictures. In our storage, we had I think there’s about a dozen or so beds that we got permission from the DRA to have here from the (former) manag ing director to help when we had the All Hands and Hearts who had no place to stay and they needed a place to stay so we provided accommodations for All Hands and Hearts with the
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“We later received a report that the child has succumbed to his injuries,” he said.
“The kitchen equipment was stored here by order of the DRA and we stored them here for them and in fact what we should do is
People need help, and the clock is ticking.
THE international com munity continues to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Septem ber 8 at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. I am taken aback that some are expressing shock that a 96-year-old has died. She was four years short of the century mark. Born in April of 1926 to the late King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth II’s seven decades as Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of nations is being touted as the longest of all the other British monarchs. To underscore the signifi cance of her lengthy tenure, Queen Elizabeth II began her reign in 1952 --- one year prior to the formation of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and 15 years prior to Majority Rule and 21 years before The Baha mas achieved independence from her nation. At the time of her transition, The Bahamas, Grenada, St Vin cent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Papau New Guinea, St Lucia, New Zealand, Canada, Belize, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Aus tralia were still members of theWhenCommonwealth.former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham read Governor General Sir CA Smith’s proclamation of King Charles III being our new monarch in Parlia ment Square, the response throughout The Baha mas was ho-hum to say the least. Not surprisingly, most Bahamians are grap pling with high gasoline and food inflation. In Freeport, there is a group of homeless Bahamians roaming the streets begging, in addition
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may be found there. Yet, “I gather up cold handfuls of the dew, To wash you, cousin. I dab you clean with moss. Fine as the drizzle out of a low cloud.
It doesn’t look good, however, espe cially when contrasted with the lack of financial support for those at the sharp end.Is this a government for all? Or a gov ernment far distant from those on the breadline and in need of help?
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than one it will be hard to adjust, but it is now God save The King King Charles III - may He reign over us (at least ‘til the PLP decide to play the refer endum card) - I doubt PM Davis will unless they are absolutely sure they can win the question. Refer enda have a death wish on sitting governments if they lose one ask Mr Ingraham andWellChristie.from Elizabethan to Charlian - interesting as a Realm State our High Com missioner to the Court of St James/UK was ‘required’ to sign the Proclamation documents on our behalf as a Realm State - a privilege for His Excellency Ellison Greenslade no Bahamian has ever done that.
The idea was suggested that increased social services support would help to cushion the impact of the tax changes for breadbasket items – literally people’s dailyButbread.the programme has not been launched yet – with Minister of Social Services Obie Wilchcombe saying at the end of last month that the launch was still two months away.
OMAR Davis, Jr, was buried peacefully yesterday. His death still haunts me. I imagined a great many are still pondering, still trying to make claims of his body in the attempt that knowledge
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No one made the government change its tax structure – that was this admin istration’s idea. It should have been prepared for it, in all facets, and at all levels of Leavingsociety.those who are struggling the most to find a way to get by while the government busies itself setting up a programme is unconscionable. If the safety net wasn’t in place, why did the government make the change instead of waiting?More importantly, how much longer must people wait for the government to give the support it pledged?
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As Mr Bowe says in today’s story: “When VAT was reintroduced on a broader base, really the persons that needed those benefits have effectively been penalised for the better part of nine months because the cost of items went up for them, but the needed assis tance has not been implemented.
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My main purpose in writing this missive is to debunk the narrative float ing around on social media by doomsday prophets that the passing of Queen Elizabeth II is prophetically significant. While the queen was a prominent individual
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to persistent rumours of scores destitute families living in dilapidated apart ments throughout the city. There are also rumours of homeless people living in the International Bazaar. It is that bad in Freeport. Nobody wants to talk about these Bahamians who have fallen on hard times because it is too embarrassing.Proclaiming a new British monarch means nothing to Bahamians who are debat ing whether to defer paying this month’s rent or buying much needed groceries or trying to find a place to bathe and sleep. Queen Elizabeth II appeared to be a down-to-earth indi vidual who connected well with those in her pres ence. We can celebrate her many accomplishments without forgetting the fact that during her 15 years as head of the colony between 1952 and 1967, there were no colleges or universi ties and only a handful of high schools in The Baha mas. Government High is where privileged Bahami ans attended. Also, the Out Islands were undeveloped. It had to take a Black PLP government to right this wrong -- a pressing matter that could’ve been easily addressed by Buckingham Palace with a simple stroke of a pen. But I digress.
In today’s Tribune Business section, Fidelity Bank chief executive Gowon Bowe has warned that the government should “naturally expect the criticism” after a delay in launching its RISE programme.Thegoal of the programme was to help out those most in need after the government changed its approach to VAT.On coming into office, the govern ment reduced VAT across the board to ten percent – but removed the exemp tion on breadbasket items.
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known around the globe, her death was no more sig nificant than the deaths of the other estimated 78,000 people who died on Sep tember 8. Jesus Christ loves those homeless Grand Bahamians whom the pow ers-that-be are pretending do not exist just as much as He loved Queen Elizabeth II. In God’s kingdom, the last shall be first and the first shall be
We did say two stories, however. The other shoe to drop is the rocketing travel
Accordinglast.to Bioethics Research Library, 78,000 people die each day, which works out to about 7,425 per hour or 120 per minute or 65 million per year. If there is any prophetic sig nificance to the queen’s passing, it is one more fulfilment of Hebrews 9:27, which says that it is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment.Allthings being consid ered, Queen Elizabeth II has stepped into eternity. Over on the other side of death she is just, to use the words of C S Lewis in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a daughter of Eve who will have to give an account of her life and reign to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. She will be treated no dif ferently than the vagrants who loiter on Bay Street. As the titular head of the Anglican Church, I sin cerely hope that she made the right decision in obey ing the gospel of Jesus Christ before her transition, considering that she was afforded a privileged exist ence that the overwhelming majority of humanity can only dream of having. May her soul rest in peace.
expenditure for our flyaway government leaders.The government’s travel spending went over its Budget allocation by 11.1 percent.TheMinistry of Finance’s report for the full 2021-22 fiscal year revealed travel spending and subsistence pay ments went up by more than two-thirds year-on-year.Now,granted, the previous year saw continuing limits on travel because of COVID restrictions – but that doesn’t explain why the government has bust its own Budget estimations.
SUCH a short time ago we lost our Sovereign Queen - Queen of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas - monarchists will mourn anti-monarchists will see an opportunity to lobby - push for the removal of the Sovereign as Head of State to a Democratic Republic like the majority of the Commonwealth of Nations.Partypolitics for sure the PLP has always wanted the removal of the sovereign and there will be no doubt with the 50th anniversary coming up next year their lobby will strengthen and suggest it might be appro priate to take the issue to The People in referenda and see their decision this will divide.
On one hand, we have the delays in implementation of social services sup port for those in the greatest need.
Now, of course, there will be lots of political noise around such a situation – but the solution is simple. Deliver the help that was promised – and get on withPeopleit. will rightly be angry if they are left waiting on government help while watching their parliamentary represent atives jetting off around the world.
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Will the present Prime Minister go down this road? He clearly since election, a year ago has been on an image making profile – it seems to me that his Office has become a public relations fortress of spin and imaging to a level that is becoming rather ridiculous.Wesaw it yesterday with the proclamation that those who were Queen’s Coun sel would now be known as King’s Counsel, but the instrument of such des ignation is controlled by legislation not, I suggest by magisterial proclama tion from OPM surely only by an Amendment to the Law in Parliament can this occur, I stand to be cor rected. The really hilarious part was the last - how he, the Prime Minister, is to be addressed was that nec essary? To this observer a little of the competent authority syndrome coming intoVirtuallyplay! 80 plus per cent of living Bahamians only knew a Queen it’s only 50 years next year we took Independence we are young in more senses
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A reflection Her Majesty served exemplary for 70 years totally unselfishly through wars, epidemics and crisis, thank you. Public elected officials should take heed of that and copy – it certainly will be better in the Bahamas if they did.
THE COFFIN of Queen Elizabeth II is carried to the RAF aircraft at Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, yes terday, for the final journey from Scotland in a Royal Air Force plane to Photo:London.Andrew Milligan/AP
TWO men were each given 18 months’ probation in Magistrate’s Court after they faced separate charges of violating their Supreme Court bail for attempted murder and unlawful sexual intercourse.Jameson Jacob, 24, faced Magistrate Samuel McKinney on five counts of violating conditions of bail. This comes after Jacob was granted bail in the Supreme Court on February 5 on charges of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endangerBetweenlife.September 1–9, the accused failed to charge
Mr Munroe said he was told that two men con nected to the crime are now in police custody.
OFFICER TESTIFIES IN $3M DRUG TRIAL
Serville on two charges. He is accused of attack ing and causing harm to Ruth Knowles on Septem ber 3 at Potter’s Cay.
AN officer gave testi mony in Magistrate’s Court yesterday in the ongoing drug trial of three men arrested for $3m worth of marijuana seized off the coast of Ragged Island.
guilty to the charges.
amount of cash.
TWO ADMIT BAIL VIOLATIONS
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As the suspects’ vessel was taking on water, police safely escorted the vessel to Exuma and arrived at Eliz abeth Harbour at 10.30pm.
This package was offi cially logged into evidence. After the completion of his testimony the accused had no questions for the officer.
They were charged with conspiracy to possess dan gerous drugs with intent to supply, possession of dan gerous drugs with intent to supply, conspiracy to import dangerous drugs and importation of danger ousChiefdrugs. Superintendent
Prince Charlton of the RBPF gave testimony of his involvement in the matter. He said that after receiv ing information about the accused at 11am that day, he left the Marine Support Base on Bay Street in a marked police boat bound for Ragged Island, along with other officers.
However, Magistrate Serville granted the accused $6,000 bail on con dition he be fitted with an electronic monitoring device.Johnson’s trial will con tinue on December 12.
POLICE STATION ESCAPE SUSPECT GRANTED BAIL
In court, the accused pleaded guilty to breaching the conditions of his Supreme Court bail.
A MAN was granted $6,000 bail in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after he was charged with causing harm and escaping from the Potter’s Cay Police Station.Peter Johnson, 46, faced Magistrate Shaka
AMID a spate of armed robberies in the capital, National Security Minister Wayne Munroe gave an ass surance that police officers are actively working to fight crime.“The police are out there in numbers,” Mr Munroe told reporters yesterday.
Minister warns police ‘out in numbers’ amid robbery spike
his electronic monitoring device (EMD) according to his bail conditions.
“The message to the gen eral public is this – we have too many people giving, for want of a better word, poor people a bad name. ‘Oh, their economic circum stances drive me to rob.’ That’s nonsense.
In court, Jacob pleaded guilty. He said he failed to charge his EMD due to a recent death in his family and the back to school rush. Jacobs went on to apologise for his actions and promised not to repeat hisThemistakes.magistrate placed Jacobs on probation for 18 months. If he breaches this, he faces three months in prison.The second man, Chan ton Butler, 21, faced Magistrate McKinney on a charge of violating the conditions of his Supreme Court bail for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. Butler is accused of
He also condemned the recent increase in armed robberies, saying the number of people involved in criminal activity were a minority.“Weare always con cerned about all levels of crime,” Mr Munroe said. “I am made to understand that two of those three men may be in custody at this very moment. The message to the criminal element isyes, you may be able to do something, but the police will find you and you will be called to account.
Photos and videos of the incident made its rounds on social media on Monday.
He too was given 18 months’ probation. He was further ordered to pay a $1,000 fine or spend three months in custody.
“Students need to stop tolerating the five or ten percent of students who cause people to talk about, oh well, this is a generation loss. When we see 50 or 75 students carrying on badly and you add up the school population and the popula tion is 1,500, you have 50 to 75 out of 1500 students causing people to have this name.“So, firstly, we must recognise that it’s only a minority of people who are doing this and if we don’t weed them out, if we don’t identify them to authorities, they will continue to make the majority of us look bad.”
On the same day, he is alleged to have escaped custody from the Pot ter’s Cay Station after his arrest.After electing to continue his case in the Magistrate’s Court, Johnson pleaded not
“The vehicles are being made available to them. You would’ve seen that we got a gift of six new vehicles from the US Embassy and so the police are there and if you continue it, they will get you and you will be held to Mraccount.”Munroe spoke after police reported six armed robberies in New Provi dence over the weekend. Two more armed robberies were reported on Monday.
Michael Miller, 52, King ston Saunders, 63, and Romell Miller, 40, are on trial before Magistrate Samuel McKinney after they were allegedly found with 3,000lb of Indian hemp in open waters near Ragged Island on January 26.
Another armed robbery reportedly occurred at a popular liquor store.
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onboard. Charlton said that 53 white sacks, along with an additional 53 rec tangular packages and two carry-on bags full of Indian hemp totaling 3,000 lbs were seized from the go-fast boat. During their search officers also uncov ered Bahamian passports belonging to the accused.
Between August 13 to September 10, the accused failed to comply with the daily curfew of 9pm to 6am at his resi dence. He also failed to sign in at the East Street South Police Station every Tues day, Thursday and Saturday before 6pm.
The case was adjourned to October 14.
sleeping with a 15-year-old girl last Butler’sNovember.bailwas granted on December 15, 2021, by Justice Cheryl GrantThompson at $15,000.
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“You rob because you’re a criminal. You have a bunch of people who are struggling who don’t rob people so you need to stop it. You need to stop tolerat ing this minority of people who give the majority a bad name.”Hesaid the same mes sage applies across the board, especially when it comes to violence among ourMryouth.Munroe continued:
Once they arrived at the scene and met up with a marked US Coast Guard helicopter CSP Charlton said they saw a small craft in the water. Upon intercept ing this white 36ft speed boat with twin 350 Yamaha engines, officers identified three men on board with Micheal Miller at the helm.
He is represented by attorney Ian Cargill.
According to police reports, a few people were robbed of their personal belongings that included their cell phones and other items, while several busi ness establishments were robbed of an undisclosed
After informing the three men, later identified as the defendants in court, of the authorities’ inten tion to search the vessel for suspected dangerous drugs, several packages of marijuana were discovered
A subsequent analysis of the drugs confirmed it to be $3m worth of marijuana, a package of which was shown in court identified by the signature and date CSP Charlton had placed on it.
The prosecution objected to Johnson’s bail.
In her speech, Lizzo said, “When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me.” This is a common dream. May people in entertainment longed to see themselves on television screens, album covers, and billboards. Some of us have young people in our lives who have more role models who look like them than we ever had at their age. We see the way they think and all they dare to try, and we know that they believe they can, at least in part, because they are seeing it done in real time. Representation matters, and sometimes we get it in parts. We may see a woman, but not a Black woman. We may see a Black woman, but not a fat Black woman. We want to see more of ourselves. It not only lets us know that we are not alone, but that we can. We can do what ever we see people who look like us doing.
SHERYL Lee Ralph accepts the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for “Abbott Elementary” on Monday.
for “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls” at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday.Photo: Jae C Hong/AP
Ralph’s family is also vis ibly supportive of her and her work. Her daughter often posts on social media, sharing photos and clips of
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As notable as her belief in herself and her refusal to give up is her support system that is not only family, but peers who saw her greatness and created spaces for her to shine.
HELP OTHERS TO SHINE, AND ENJOY THE LIGHT IT BRINGS
bring everything the show needed. Brunson is said to have aimed at putting Ralph in a position to win an Emmy. She was not only interested in casting her show and winning awards, but shining a light on some one deserving of accolades. In the process, her show shares the limelight and is dominating the conversa tion about the Emmys even two days later.
This is what healthy pro fessional relationships look like. We see each other’s strengths, and we not only look to put them to the best possible use, but also in the best position to be seen and appreciated by others so that people’s contribu tions are clear and can be acknowledged beyond mere enjoyment or consumption of the final product. It is remembering that people can be good at more than one thing, but it makes a difference when they are put in a position to do the things that allow them to shine. We ought to want to help each other shine.
Lizzo continued, “If
They were loud and una bashed in their celebration of their mother, quieting only when she reached the microphone and began her speech.
Another beautiful moment on Monday night was Lizzo getting halfway to the EGOT everyone knows she will probably achieve. She won best com petition programme for her show Watch Out for the Big Grrrls where women competed to become her backup dancer.
‘Ralph’s win felt like a win for many recognitionandhavePeoplepeople.whoworkedwaitedforat the level they deserve, but have Sherylcelebrateweredecision-makersoverlookedbeenbyabletowithLeeRalph.’
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in your own excellence Ralph said, “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striv ing looks like, and don’t you ever, ever give up on you.”
Ralph. Her children’s sup port on Monday night was not shown on television, but shared on social media. The siblings sat together, and both sprung from their seats to jump, cheer, and hug each other as she made her way to the stage. They were jubilant and could not seem to help but scream for her, saying, “Mommy!”
“I AM an endangered species, but I sing no victim song. I am a woman, I am an artist, and I know where my voice belongs.” These are the lyrics Sheryl Lee Ralph bellowed upon acceptance of her Emmy award — her first one — for best supporting actress in a comedy series. Ralph plays Barbara Howard, a veteran kindergarten teacher, in Abbott Elementary which will return for its second season starting next week. She received an enthusi astic, cheer-filled standing ovation from her peers who have seen her —excellencefrom her 1982 Broad way run yearsrolewonJackéewomanbythetheEmmyingtoandMoeshatoDreamgirlswithherroleon—knowherbedeservofherwin—firstwinincategoryaBlacksinceHarryforherin227-35ago.Keepbelieving
DON’T WAIT, CREATE
I could go back and tell little Lizzo something, I’d be like, ‘You gon’ see that person, but [expletive], it’s gon’ have to be you.’” It is also interesting to hear what people would tell younger versions of them selves. Most often, it is advice or an affirmation. For Lizzo, it is both. Things will change, and you will get what you want, and it will be because you made the change by creating exactly what you wanted.
Ralph’s win felt like a win for many people. People who have worked and waited for recognition at the level they deserve, but have been overlooked by decision-makers were able to celebrate with Sheryl Lee Ralph. Her talent is one that everyone could see, and that we enjoyed over the years. Abbott Elemen tary is only the most recent place we have been able to witness her brilliance.
When show creator Quinta Brunson met Ralph while working on A Black Lady Sketch Show, she was deter mined to work with her. She insisted that Ralph play the role of Barbara Howard, knowing that she would
Lizzo is using her position of power, as a multi-plati num recording artist with a serious fan base and the financial backing avail able to her, to bring more people along. In Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, 13 people compete for a spot on the Bonnaroo music festival stage with Lizzo. All of the contestants had time to shine, and all of the viewers saw a new possi bility. Lizzo created it, and someone watching will one day create what they do not want to wait for too.
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She went on to recognise the people who helped to make it possible, including show creator Quinta Brun son and her family.
We have to remember that we ought to be the first to notice and name our suc cess. We do not and should not wait for anyone else to bestow titles upon us, or allow awards to determine our value. Ralph spoke about her belief in herself, and that being the element that kept her dream alive. It can seem as though no one is paying attention. The silence of others could be taken to mean that we are invisible, that our work is invisible.Inan interview on the sidelines of the Emmys, Sheryl Lee Ralph said: “Thank God I didn’t give up onItme.”is easy to usviews,inspeechRalph,forweindoesavailable,isnalwhendiscouragedbecomeextervalidationnotreadilyornotcomethewayimagineourselves.inherandherinterremindsthatweare
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constantly writing our own stories, and though it can be tempting to write, “The End” somewhere in the long, often painful middle, when we keep going, we make our own wins possible.
All the iPhone 14 models also will include a motion senor capable of detect ing serious car crashes and automatically connecting to emergency services.
The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during com mercial space launches and landings.BlueOrigin’s launch commentary went silent when the capsule cata pulted off the rocket Monday morning, even tually announcing: “It appears we’ve experienced an anomaly with today’s flight. This wasn’t planned.”
cycles in addition to the crash detection feature also debuting on the iPhone 14. The price for the latest Apple Watch, available in stores Sept. 16, will start at $399, the same as last year’s model.Inan effort to broaden the appeal of wearable technology, Apple is rolling out a Watch Ultra model designed to be more dura ble and offering a variety of special features tailored for hikers, scuba divers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The Watch Ultra, available in stores Sept. 23, will carry a premium price of $799.
provide additional details about the ride-hailing services in Phoe nix and WhenAustin.itsride-hailing service enters Phoenix, Cruise will be
CCI Insight analyst Leo Gebbie predicted that the Ultra will compete with existing sports watch brands like Garmin and some luxury Swiss watch makers that market their products around extreme sports.Apple also took the wraps off its next genera tion of wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro 2, which will also maintain a starting price of $249.
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Cruise, a San Francisco startup that General Motors bought six years ago, told an audience at an investor conference that an autonomous ride-hailing service that began charging San Fran cisco passengers in June will make its debut in Phoenix and Austin, Texas, within the next 90 days.As it already has been doing in parts of San Francisco during night-time hours, Cruise’s ridehailing service will transport passengers in vehicles that won’t have a safety driver in them to take control if the robotic tech nologyCruisemalfunctions.CEOKyle Vogt didn’t
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competing with another robot axi service run by Waymo, a Google spin-off, that already has been charging passengers there. Waymo is also testing a robotaxi
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple’s latest lineup of iPhones will boast better cameras, faster pro cessors, and a longer lasting battery — all at the same prices as last year’s models, despite inflationary pres sure that has driven up the cost of many other every dayThatitems.pricing decision, revealed last week during Apple’s first in-person product event in three years, came as a mild surprise. Many analysts predicted Apple would ask its devout fans to pay as much as 15% more to help offset rising costs for many components.Thehoopla surround ing Apple’s new iPhone 14 models is part of a post-Labor Day ritual the company has staged annually for more than a decade. Last Wednesday’s event was held on the company’s Cupertino, Cali fornia, campus at a theatre named after company cofounder Steve Jobs. After Apple CEO Tim Cook strolled out on stage, most of the event consisted of pre-recorded video pres entation that the company honed during previous events staged during the pandemic.Forseveral years, Apple’s new iPhones have mostly featured incremen tal upgrades to cameras and battery life, and this year’s models were no exception. Pricing for the standard iPhone 14 will start at $799; the deluxe iPhone 14 Pro Max will start at Among$1099. the latest improvements is a 48-meg apixel camera in the Pro and Pro Max models that the company said will produce especially crisp pictures. The iPhone 13 versions of the Pro and Pro
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — General Motors’ self-driving car company on Monday announced plans to expand a robotaxi ser vice that recently launched in California into new markets in Arizona and Texas before the end of this year.
Cruise told the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin istration, that one of its vehicles was making an unprotected left turn at an intersection when it was hit by an oncoming vehicle.
Apple could also fatten its bottom line if more con sumers looking upgrade their mobile devices gravi tate to the high-end Pro and Pro Max models, which generate bigger profit margins than the cheaper models. And it
The Cruise vehicle had to be towed away from the scene, according to the regulatory filing.
devices. The dimming sales outlook prompted the research firm International Data Corp. to predict a worldwide decline in 2022 smartphone shipments of 6.5%, almost double the 3.5% decline it had esti mated a few months ago. Despite that anticipated drop in sales, the average price for new smartphones is expected to finish this year about 6% higher than last year, IDC estimated.
Forrester analyst Thomas Husson hailed the new lineup for its faster chips, improved design and “some incremental innova tiveThefeatures.”company’s Apple Watch Series 8, meanwhile, will include a new tem perature sensor intended to help women retrospec tively track their ovulation
service in San Francisco that hasn’t yet been cleared to charge passengers.Although Vogt told investors that the driverless ride-hailing service in San Francisco is win ning over many loyal customers, Cruise ran into problems the day after receiving its permit from California regulators to begin collecting fares.
In a regulatory disclosure made earlier this month, Cruise revealed that it recalled 80 of its driverless vehicles for a soft ware update after one of the cars was involved in an accident that resulted in minor injuries.
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Max have 12-megapixel cameras. This year’s highend models will also have always-on displays that stay lit even when the device is locked, a feature that has long been available on many smartphones pow ered by Google’s Android software.Beginning in November, all the iPhone 14 models will be able to send SOS messages via a new sat ellite feature — a safety measure intended to let users request help when in remote areas without a wireless connection.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments man aged to parachute to safety.
Apple’s stock price gained 1% last Wednesday to close at Consumers$155.96.have already been snapping up iPhones this year, even though Apple charges among the industry’s highest prices. Apple sold an esti mated 106 million iPhones through the first half of this year, an 8% increase from the same time last year, according to Canalys, another research firm.
With inflation still hov ering at its highest level in 40 years, consumers have curbed their spending on many discretionary items. That’s likely contributing to a recent decline in smart phone sales, although the iPhone has fared far better than competing Android
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By keeping iPhones prices the same, Apple faces the potential risk of undermining its profits if inflation drives up its own costs.It’s a hit that the com pany could easily afford, given it has reaped $44 bil lion in profits through the first half of this year.
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CRUISE AV, General Motor’s autonomous electric Bolt EV, is displayed in Detroit in 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The capsule’s emergency launch abort system imme diately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the cap sule parachuted onto the remote desert floor.
appears Apple is anticipat ing a growing number of consumers will will be pre pared to pay an additional $200 to $300 for deluxe versions of the iPhone 14, said Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives.
One who stood in the rain waiting for the hearse to pass, retired bus driver David Stringer, 82, recalled watching the queen’s coro nation on a newsreel as a boy.“It’s a great shame,” he said. “I mean, I didn’t think about her every day, but I always knew she was there, and my life’s coming to a close now and her time has finished.”Thecoffin will be taken by horse-drawn gun car riage today to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state for four days before Monday’s funeral at West minster“ScotlandAbbey.has now bid our Queen of Scots a sad, but fond farewell,” said Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. “We will not see her like again.”
example of the far-right’s hold on the GOP, and as a political gift of self-inflicted pain for Republican candi dates now having to answer questions about an abor tion ban heading toward the midterm elections.
Yesterday’s announce ment set up an immediate split screen with Biden and Democrats poised to cele brate their accomplishments in a ceremony at the White House after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and Republicans forced to answer for Graham’s pro posed abortion ban.
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Edinburgh. UK Prime Min ister Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and a military honour guard were among those at the base for the arrival.
“This bill is wildly out of step with what Ameri cans believe,” White House press secretary Karine JeanPierre said in a statement.
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The sudden turn of events comes in a razor-tight elec tion season as Republicans hoping to win control of Congress are struggling to recapture momentum, par ticularly after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision sparked deep concerns among some voters, with signs of female voters peel ing away from the GOP.
in Belfast, a nationalist stronghold, several walls are decorated with murals of Bobby Sands, an IRA member who died while on a hunger strike in prison in 1981, and others killed in the“No,Troubles.he’s not our king. Bobby Sands was our king here,” said 52-yearold Bobby Jones. “Queen never done nothing for us. Never did. None of the royalsIrishdo.”leaders attended a service of reflection at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast despite tense rela tions between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the UK and the EU have been wran gling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK that shares a border with a member of theBeforebloc. being flown to London, the queen’s oak coffin was carried from St. Giles’ Cathedral to the strain of bagpipes. Crowds lining the Royal Mile through the historic heart of Edinburgh broke into applause as the coffin, accompanied by the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, was driven to Edinburgh Airport.“Iwas fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest mother’s life,” Princess Anne said in a statement. “It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys. Witnessing the love and respect shown by so many on these journeys has been both humbling and uplifting.”
“A nationwide abortion ban — that’s the contrast between the two parties, plain and simple,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
A deep sectarian divide remains, a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
KEN Starr, a former fed eral appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the presi dent’s impeachment and put Starr at the center of one of the country’s most polarising debates of the 1990s, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday.
Starr died at a hospital yesterday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attor ney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalised in an intensive care unit in Houston for about four months.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell remem bered Starr Tuesday as “a brilliant litigator, an impres sive leader, and a devoted patriot”.Ina probe that lasted five years, Starr looked into fraudulent real estate deals involving a long-time Clin ton associate, delved into the removal of documents from the office of deputy White House counsel Vin cent Foster after his suicide and assembled evidence of Clinton’s sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern.
Sen Patty Murray, a Dem ocrat from Washington who is in her own fight for reelec tion, said Republicans “want to force” women to stay pregnant and deliver babies.
“To anyone who thought they were safe, here is the painful reality,” she said. “Republicans are coming for your rights.”
Queen’s casket arrives at Buckingham Palace
The World Meteoro logical Organisation, in the latest stark warning about global warming, said weather-related disasters have increased fivefold over the last 50 years and are killing 115 per day on average – and the fallout is poised to worsen.
THE coffin of Queen Elizabeth II returned to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, making its way through a drizzly London as crowds lined the route for a glimpse of the hearse and to bid her a final farewell.People parked their cars along a normally busy road, got out and waved as the hearse, with lights inside illuminating the flag-draped coffin, made its way into London. In the city, people pressed in on the road and held their phones aloft as it passed.Thousands outside the palace cheered, shouted “God save the queen!” and clapped as the hearse swung around a rounda bout in front of the queen’s official London residence and through the wrought iron gates. Her son, King Charles III, and other immediate family members waited inside.
In a midterm election where the party out of the White House traditionally holds an advantage, even more so this year with Pres ident Joe Biden’s lackluster approval ratings, the Dem ocrats have regained their own momentum pushing back the GOP candidates in House and Senate races.
For some Irish nation alists, the monarch represents an oppressive foreign power. But others acknowledge the queen’s role in forging peace. On a visit to Northern Ireland in 2012, she shook hands with Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander — a once-unthinkable moment of reconciliation.
On Tuesday the new king shook hands with Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle
than shying away from the Supreme Court’s ruling this summer overturning Roe vs Wade’s nearly 50-year right to abortion access, Repub licans are preparing to fight to make a nationwide abor tion ban federal law.
The Republican bill would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest or risk to the physi cal health of the mother. Graham said it would put the US on par with many countries in Europe and around the world.
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UPENDING the politi cal debate, Republican Sen Lindsey Graham introduced a nation wide abortion ban yesterday, sending shock waves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elec tions that will determine control of RepublicanthesaidsomeSenatecontrolcanswhereitgress.thechancetions,pregnancycedurewouldabortionimmediatelycanGraham’sCongress.ownRepubliPartyleadersdidnotembracehisbanbill,whichprohibittheproafter15weeksofwithrareexcepandhasalmostnoofbecominglawinDemocratic-heldConDemocratstorchedasanalarmingsignalof“MAGA”RepubliareheadediftheywinoftheHouseandinNovember.“America’sgottomakedecisions,”GrahamatanewsconferenceatCapitol.TheSouthCarolinasaidthatrather
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JEAN-LUC Godard, the iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionised popular cinema in 1960 with his first feature, “Breathless,” and stood for years among the film world’s most influential directors, died Tuesday. He wasGodard91. died peacefully and surrounded by loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, his family said in a statement. The statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland, as the cause of death.Amedical report recently revealed the director had “multiple invalidating pathologies,” according to the family statement, which did not specify the conditions.
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— Republicans in Con gress are focused on taking rights away from millions of women,” Jean-Pierre said.
“There is nothing natu ral about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction,” he said. “This year’s United in Science report shows cli mate impacts heading into uncharted territories of destruction.”“Yeteach year we dou ble-down on this fossil fuel addiction, even as the symp toms get rapidly worse,” he added.The report, drawn from data compiled by several UN agencies and partners, cited a 48 percent chance that global temperature rise compared to pre-industrial times will reach 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) in the next five years. There’s a 93 percent chance that one year in the next five will see record heat.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cited the floods in Pakistan, heat waves in Europe, droughts in places such as China, the Horn of Africa, and the United States – and pointed the finger at fossil fuels.
WITH weather disasters costing $200m a day and irreversible climate catas trophe looming, the world is “heading in the wrong direction,” the United Nations says in a new report that pulls together the latest science on climate change.
In particular, Graham’s bill would leave in place state laws that are more restrictive. That provision is notable because many Republicans have argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling leaves the abor tion issue for the states to decide. But the legisla tion from the Republicans makes it clear states are only allowed to decide the issue if their abortion bans are more stringent.
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Graham’s legislation has almost zero chance of becoming law, but it ele vates the abortion issue at a time when other Repub licans would prefer to focus on inflation, border security and Biden’s leadership.
The coffin traveled to London from Edinburgh, where 33,000 people filed silently past it in the 24 hours at St Giles’ Cathedral after it had been brought there from her cherished summer retreat, Balmoral. The queen — the only mon arch many in the United Kingdom have ever known — died there on September 8 at age 96 after 70 years on theThethrone.military C-17 Globe master carrying the casket touched down at RAF Northolt, an air force base in the west of London, about an hour after it left
“While President Biden and Vice President Harris are focused on the historic passage of the Inflation Reduction Act to reduce the cost of prescrip tion drugs, health care, and energy – and to take unprecedented action to address climate change
Reaction was swift, fierce and unwavering from Dem ocrats who viewed Graham’s legislation as an extreme
death. The area in front of the gates to the castle was carpeted with hundreds of floralCharlestributes.and his wife Camilla, the Queen Con sort, got out of their car to wave to the crowd and sometimes used both hands to reach out to villagers, including schoolchildren in bright blue uniforms. Charles even petted a corgi — famously his late moth er’s favorite breed of dog — held up by one person, and some chanted “God save the “Todayking!”means so much to me and my family, just to be present in my home village with my children to witness the arrival of the new king is a truly his toric moment for us all,” said Hillsborough resident RobinWhileCampbell.there was a warm welcome in Hills borough, the British monarchy draws mixed emotions in Northern Ire land, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves Brit ish and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish. That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involv ing paramilitary groups on both sides and UK secu rity forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched per sonally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
Charles had returned to London from Northern Ire land, where his visit drew a rare moment of unity from politicians in a region with a contested British and Irish identity that is deeply divided over the monarchy.
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O’Neill.Ina sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, rep resentatives of Sinn Fein attended commemora tive events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.AlexMaskey, a Sinn Fein politician who is speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said the queen had “demonstrated how individual acts of positive leadership can help break down barriers and encour ageCharlesreconciliation”.responded that she had tried to play a role “in bringing together those whom history had sepa rated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts”.Hesaid he would draw on his mother’s “shining example” and “seek the welfare of all the inhabit ants of Northern Ireland”. Still, not everyone was welcoming the new king. On the Falls Road
“Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we’re going nowhere,” the senator said while flanked by female advo cates from the anti-abortion movement. “We welcome the debate. We welcome the vote in the United States Senate as to what America should look like in 2022.”
The new king is making his own journey this week, visiting the four nations of the UK – England, Scot land, Wales and Northern Ireland.Hundreds gathered around Hillsborough Castle near Belfast, the royal fam ily’s official residence in Northern Ireland, in the latest outpouring of affec tion following the queen’s
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NOT many people get to be a pioneer at 77 years old, especially in sports broadcasting.Thatwill be the case, though, when Al Michaels calls Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video.
“I said to somebody, ‘They think we’re coming over the Rockies in a cov ered wagon.’ I said, ‘We’re coming over the Rockies in broadband. We are the pioneers.’”Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was initially supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting con tracts, but two months later, the NFL announced that they would take over
the Thursday night pack age from Fox a year earlier. That left Amazon with 15 months to get everything up and running.
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The Mingoes came into the second half of the match stronger but The Owls had a bigger bench to fight the sweltering heat. The Owls scored in the 55th, 63rd and 69th minute.
The side was also miss ing players who could have added another dimension of defence and offence.
“If we can look to inte grate them into the squad that is only going to make us even stronger particu larly in the midfield,” he said. “That would give us better opportunities to control the game and keep moreThepossession.”Mingoes were supposed to play Atlan tis University on Friday. However, because of severe thunderstorms and lightening in the area, offi cials cancelled the fixture.
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Assistant coach Alexan der Thompson said he was pleased with the team’s effort and the ability to score at least once.
The matchup between AFC West rivals kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service.
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However, Johnson was not going to let the squad go down without one goal. Johnson connected in the
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UB Mingoes forward Joshua Johnson (blue 10) heads upfield to score against Florida Palms University during their match on September 10 in Miami. Johnson had the only goal in The Min goes 5-1 loss.
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Bayern extended its recent dominance over the Spanish giant with a 2-0 win in the Champions League yesterday to show it can cope quite well with out Lewandowski, who left to join Barcelona in the offseason.Itstarted out as a friendly homecoming as Lewan dowski walked down the familiar steps of the Alli anz Arena players’ tunnel before kickoff, hugging every one of his former teammates along the way.
“A’ja cussed me out before the game. That’s all I needed,” Plum said. “About time I joined the party. They carried us all week. It’s good to hit some shots, but we have one more.”After being held to a season-low 67 points in Game 1, the Aces found their offensive prowess to hit 33 of 64 (51.6%) from theConnecticut,floor. which fin ished 27 of 64 (42.2%) from the field, had four players in double digits, led by Courtney Williams with 18.Jonquel Jones also had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, Alyssa Thomas finished with 13 Lookingpoints.to establish an offensive presence early, both teams pushed the pace early, trading buckets to a 10-10 tie until the Aces seized momentum and
The Aces are now one victory away from the fran chise’s first championship with Game 3 on Thursday in LasConnecticut.Vegaswas swept in the 2008 Finals when the team was still in San Anto nio. The Aces were also swept in 2020.
It marks the first time since Fox in 1994 that a new broadcasting partner has been brought into the NFL framework.ForMarie Donoghue, Amazon’s vice president of Global Sports Video, Thursday’s game marks a rewarding end of a fouryear quest to bring the NFL to the Donoghuecompany.was an execu tive VP at ESPN for 19 years and saw what the NFL could do for Prime Video much as it did when ESPN and Fox began carry ing games. believe it’s a once-in-ageneration opportunity to create something for fans,” she said. “The trends are all in our favour.”
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“We have quite a few new players and this would have been the first time that they would have travelled and played colle giately internationally,” he said.“We got some valuable experience and we’re in the process of implement ing a new playing style and we saw where our strengths were and where our weak nesses were and so we know what we need to workThompsonon.” added that he was especially pleased with the play of the back field.
“Our centre backs and one in particular looked very good playing out of
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Dennis Schroder scored 26 points, Daniel Theis had a 13-point, 16-rebound effort and host Germany moved into the EuroBasket semifinals with a 107-96 win over Greece Antetokounmpoyesterday.had a monster game for Greece — 31 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in 30 minutes. But he also picked up two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls, the last of those leading to his ejection with 4:56 Greeceleft.was down by 14 when he committed his second such foul, and Germany maintained full
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A’ja Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Las Vegas Aces to an 85-71 victory over the Connecti cut Sun last night in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.
the back,” he said. “We have speed on the wings and players who are dan gerous in and around the attacking third.”
MIAMI — The Univer sity of The Bahamas men’s soccer side lost to Florida Palms University 5-1 over the weekend in interna tional play.
BERLIN (AP) — Gian nis Antetokounmpo got ejected, and Greece’s hopes of bringing home a Euro pean championship ended not long Germany,afterward.meanwhile, is taking full advantage of its home-court edge.
The Mingoes’ lone score came from forward Joshua Johnson in the 83rd minute of Earlyplay. in the match The Mingoes were battling the Florida Palm University Owls and the more than 90 degree heat. In the first half, The Owls were able to score quickly in the 12th and 35th minute.
find it exciting because all of my friends, my kids, and grandkids all think this is about the coolest thing in the world,” said Michaels, who will team up with Kirk Herbstreit and sideline reporter Kaylee Hartung.
83rd minute to give the team its lone goal.
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“It’s going to take every bit of everybody,” said Chelsea Gray, who added 21 points. “You can see the stats, it’s the toughness, it’s the little things that will get it done We have been a good road team this year. So we might as well go win on the Kelseyroad.”Plum rebounded from an awful Game 1 to score 20 points.
Football Association pre season play. The BFA is expected to open this month.
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“This is the start of an 11-year deal. Of course, we want the biggest audi ence possible, but this is a big change for fans,” Dono ghue said. “We’re very comfortable with that. We are overly focused on our production and what we deliver for fans. We’ve got an incredibly high bar that we set for ourselves. So we know this will evolve over time.”
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Ryan was pulled after seven innings and 106 pitches, four shy of his big leagueTherehigh.has never been a no-hitter at Target Field, and the crowd of 19,005 booed when Twins man ager Rocco Baldelli sent Moran to the mound to start the Moraneighth.worked a perfect eighth. He struck out Drew Waters to begin the ninth before walking pinch-hit ter Hunter Dozier and MJ Melendez.TheRoyals hadn’t come close to a hit until Witt lined a 1-2 fastball for a clean drive to deep left for an RBI double, setting off more boos from the fans.
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— Jacob deGrom was outpitched by Adrian Sampson and frustrated New York mustered little on offense against Chicago.
— Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run homer and Miguel Cairo directed
Perdomo, Brad Box berger, Hoby Milner, Justin Topa, Taylor Rogers and Brent Suter combined to retire 20 of 22 batters from the third inning on.
— Kevin Newman hit an RBI single in the seventh inning, four pitchers com bined on a one-hitter and Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati for day-night doubleheader sweep.Bryan Reynolds homered for the second straight game and drove in two runs as Pittsburgh hit three home runs for the second game in a row and won the opener. Chase De Jong (5-2) won the second game.
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After going homer less in five games, Judge had a pair of of tying solo homers, off Nick Pivetta in the sixth and Garrett Whit lock in the eighth.
The White Sox improved to 10-4 since Cairo stepped in for manager Tony La Russa, who is awaiting clearance to return to the dugout after dealing with a heart issue. The 77-yearold La Russa was at the ballpark before the game, but it was Cairo’s lineup card once Michaelagain.Kopech (5-9) pitched five effective innings for Chicago. José Abreu also went deep, and Liam Hendriks handled the ninth for his 33rd save.
The findings of the league’s report, published yesterday, came nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogy nistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-dec ade tenure overseeing the franchise.Sarver said he will “accept the consequences of the league’s decision” and apologised for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though noted he disagreed with some of the report’s findings.
“I think the quality of the game coverage, and obvi ously the announcing, will be as good as there is in the NFL. That’s my goal, that’s why I’m here, and that’s what we intend to do,” Gaudelli said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoe nix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organisa tional deficiencies.”
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Mark Mathias hit his second homer of the game, a solo shot with one out in the ninth, and Texas overcame a five-run deficit to beat MathiasOakland.hadthree extrabase hits and drove in four runs. Adolis Garcia added a two-run homer and had three RBIs for Texas. Mathias hit his decisive homer to left off Joel Pay ampsBrock(3-5).Burke (7-3), the last of three Texas pitch ers, threw two scoreless innings.A’srookie Dermis Garcia had a three-run home run in the first inning and had a run-scoring double in the fifth while setting a career high with four RBIs.
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Wayne State, about a mile from Comerica Park.
competition in Italy and Germany.Thebiggest concern about any event that is streamed live is video qual ity, along with making sure the infrastructure can handle the demands. Jared Stacy, Prime Video’s VP of Global Sports Produc tion, was already in the production truck at Arrow head Stadium yesterday
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Gaudelli has worked with Michaels since 2001 while Herbstreit emerged as the analyst after Troy Aikman decided to go to ESPN. Hartung, previously an ESPN sideline reporter, returns to sports after five years with ABC News and CNN.
Steffen went on loan to second-tier Middles brough from Premier League Manchester City in hopes of gaining playing time ahead of the World Cup. He played in just nine matches last season for Manchester City, where he is Ederson’s backup — one Premier League game along with four in the FA Cup, two League Cup, one Champions League and the Community Shield.
The 27-year-old has not played since August 20, Middlesbrough’s fifth match of the season, due to a knee injury.
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In the opener, Tampa Bay’s Jeffrey Springs (8-4) pitched six shutout innings to win for the fifth time in six decisions, Randy Aro zarena drove in two runs and Díaz had three hits and scored twice.
BREWERS CARDINALS8, 4 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andrew McCutchen homered and drove in three and the Milwaukee Brewers used eight pitchers to beat NL Central-leading St.DownLouis. three starters to injuries, the taxed Brew ers staff was stretched even further when starter Matt Bush left after just 15 pitches because of right groinBushdiscomfort.wasthe starter in what the club had already designated as a bullpen game.Luis Perdomo (2-0) was the winner, allowing one run in three innings.
In the United Kingdom, they carry 20 Premier League games and the US Open tennis tournament. It will also carry a package of Champions League games in the UK beginning in 2024. They already stream the European club soccer
In the opener Johan Oviedo (1-1) pitched hit less ball into the fifth and allowed one hit over five shutout innings.
from 2001-05 before going to NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” for the past 16 seasons.Gaudelli and his pro duction crew have state-of-the-art equipment, including an ergonomic production truck that allows him to call the game standing up. The production crew did two run-through sessions in Los Angeles before the presea son game between the San Francisco 49ers and Hou ston Texans on August 25.
AMERICAN goal keeper Zack Steffen missed his fourth straight game for Middlesbrough, raising doubt whether he will be available for the United States’ last two warmup matches ahead of the World Cup.
Chicago to another victory, topping Colorado.
NEW York Yankees’ Aaron Judge (99) celebrates after scoring on a three-run double by Gleyber Torres during the 10th inning of the team’s baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, yesterday in Boston. The Yankees won 7-6. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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The report said Sarver “repeated or purported to repeat the N-word on at least five occasions span ning his tenure with the Suns,” though added that the investigation “makes no finding that Sarver used this racially insensitive language with the intent to demean or Thedenigrate.”studyalso concluded that Sarver used demean ing language toward female employees, including telling a pregnant employee that she would not be able to do her job after becoming a mother; made off-colour comments and jokes about sex and anatomy; and yelled and cursed at employees in ways that would be con sidered bullying “under workplace standards.”
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— Pinch-hitter Whit Mer rifield drove in two runs with a seventh-inning double, George Springer added a two-run homer and Toronto beat Tampa Bay for a doubleheader split between AL wild-card contenders.Toronto (80-62) remained a half-game ahead of the Rays (79-62). Anthony Bass (4-3) got one out for the win. Colin Poche (4-2) was the loser.
Düsseldorf, Germany, and 53rd-ranked Saudi Arabia four days later at Murcia, Spain.American coach Gregg Berhalter plans to announce his roster for the exhibitions today.
Steffen, from Coates ville, Pennsylvania, is competing for a spot on the US World Cup roster with Matt Turner.
“There has been a lot of synergy over the years. I think being part of the Thursday Night Tricasts (same game on Fox, NFL Network and Amazon) also gave us and the NFL a com fort level combined with the experiences of what we’ve been able to prove over in
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Europe,” said Prime Video vice president Jay Marine. Jon Christian, the EVP for OnPrem, a tech nology consulting firm specialising in media and entertainment, said the Thursday night package is a great test case for the NFL.
Judge has 10th multihomer games this season, one shy of the AL record Hank Greenberg set in 1938, and 26 in his career. Judge’s three hits raised his average to .310, and he leads the major leagues in home runs and with 123 RBIs.
— Minnesota rookie Joe Ryan and reliever Jovani Moran combined to pitch no-hit ball until Bobby Witt Jr doubled with one out in the ninth inning against Kansas City.
— Los Angeles star Mike Trout’s home run streak ended at seven games, one shy of the major league record, and AL Centralleading Cleveland beat the Angels.
Ian Happ homered deep into the second deck on a 99 mph heater from deGrom (5-2), and No. 9 batter David Bote added his second home run of the season for the Cubs.
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Trout went 0 for 3 with three routine flyballs and a walk. The three-time AL MVP was chasing the mark of eight straight games with a home run, set by Pittsburgh’s Dale Long in 1956 and matched by Don Mattingly of the Yankees in 1987 and Seattle’s Ken Griffey Jr. in 1993.
Amazon and the NFL also have a prior working history. Amazon Web Ser vices has partnered with the league for Next Gen Stats since 2015, while Prime Video has simulcast Thurs day night games since 2017.
“The big differences are going to be on all the other things you can access while you’re streaming a game that you can’t access while watching it on television. I think you’re going to get a more enriched experience.”
DETROIT (AP) — Rookie Hunter Brown returned to his hometown to pitch six strong innings, leading Houston past Detroit.Brown (2-0), who allowed two runs on five hits, was making his second career start in front of a loud group of friends and family. He grew up in sub urban Detroit and attended
“Through streaming, the NFL will have direct-toconsumer access and be able to measure the audi ence and compare with previous traditional deliv ery methods,” he said. “This is the first time an NFL game will be locked behind a streaming sub scription service. This will eliminate a portion of the audience that doesn’t have this capability or Amazon Prime. It will be interest ing to see how much they gain from the ‘cord-cutters’ and how much this deal spurs new Amazon Prime subscribers.”Thosewatching on the Prime Video app on their TVs, phones, or tablets can access on-demand sta tistics and highlights to enhance the second-screen experience. When it comes to the actual game broad casts, don’t expect them to reinvent the wheel with executive producer Fred Gaudelli calling the shots. It will be Gaudelli’s 33rd season as the lead producer for an NFL prime-time package.Heworked on ESPN’s Sunday night package from 1990-2000 and ABC’s “Monday Night Football”
afternoon going over final preparations, including cov ering all contingencies.
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“It’s nice to have rookies, for lack of a better word. They don’t have these like pre-fixed ideas of what TV should be,” Thompson said. “They are all so natural. I can throw them a ques tion, and they are ready and know how to change direction.”While the NFL and Prime Video would like to draw big viewer numbers immediately, both par ties realise the transition will take some time, even though there has been extensive promotion about where to find the games. While everyone focuses on the first game, the bigger picture is down the road.
Yordan Alvarez homered and scored three times to help the Astros improve to 6-0 against the Tigers this season.Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save.
“I think we’ve got the best and the brightest work ing on that infrastructure,” he“We’vesaid. delivered mas sive events throughout Europe. This is day one for ‘Thursday Night Foot ball’ exclusively on Prime Video, but we’ve been doing Champions League and Premier League. We’ve learned a lot and already do that at a really high level with a really stable stream. So we feel pretty confident about where we’re at on that front as well.”
The area where Prime could stand out is its pre game show. They have established veterans in Charissa Thompson and Tony Gonzalez, but have also hired Richard Sher man, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Whitworth. Having three television rookies coming straight off the football field could make things entertaining.
Oscar Gonzalez’s tworun homer in the sixth broke a 1-all tie and gave Cleveland its fifth straight win. José Ramirez started the inning with a double and Gonzalez lined an 0-2 pitch from José Suarez (6-7) off the railing atop the wall in left field.
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Sampson (2-5) allowed two hits and four walks in six shutout innings. He struck out three.
New York’s Pete Alonso launched his 34th homer in the ninth against Brandon Hughes, who got five outs to finish it.
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Liam Roberts, who joined Middlebrough this season from fourth-tier Northampton, started in his place again against Cardiff last night, and Luke Daniels was on the bench. The last two World Cup prep matches for the 13th-ranked Ameri cans are against No. 23 Japan on September 23 at
The 15-game package averages $1.2 billion per season. That could go up slightly beginning next year when the NFL is expected to schedule a game for the day after Thanksgiv ing since “Black Friday” unofficially kicks off the Christmas shopping season.
Many lauded the presea son presentation, saying it appeared that Prime Video had been carrying games for a couple of years instead of it being their first.
BOSTON (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs, Gleyber Torres had a go-ahead three-run double in the 10th inning and the New York Yankees held on to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-6 last Judge,night.playing in New York’s 142nd game, is four from tying the American League home run record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in 1961.
— Ryan Mountcastle hit a tying homer and Baltimore beatTheWashington.Orioles moved within five games of Tampa Bay for the final wild-card spot. The Nationals have lost four in a row to fall a season-high 44 games under .500 at a majorsworstMountcastle49-93. led off the fifth with his 22nd homer, a shot to right-center off former Orioles prospect Hunter Harvey (1-1) to tie it at 3. Gunnar Henderson then doubled, went to third on Ramón Urías’ single and scored on Austin Hays’ bloop double.
The $10 million fine is the maximum allowed by NBA rule. “I take full responsibil ity for what I have done,” Sarver said. “I am sorry for causing this pain, and these errors in judgment are not consistent with my personal philosophy or my values. ... This moment is an opportu nity for me to demonstrate a capacity to learn and grow as we continue to build a working culture where every employee feels com fortable and valued.”
PHILLIES 2, MARLINS 1 MIAMI (AP) — Nick Maton hit a go-ahead, tworun homer in the seventh inning off Sandy Alcantara, leading Philadelphia past Miami and tightening the Phillies’ grip on the second spot in the NL wild-card race.Philadelphia won its fourth in a row. Alcan tara (12-8) fell to 1-3 in six starts against the Phillies thisBaileyseason. Falter (5-3) allowed one run and four hits in six innings, striking outThefour.Phillies then got per fect innings from relievers José Alvarado and Seran thony Domínguez, and David Robertson followed with a perfect ninth for his 20th save.
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Sarver, the league said, cannot be present at any NBA or WNBA team facil ity, including any office, arena, or practice facility; attend or participate in any NBA or WNBA event or activity.
Connecticut is 3-0 in elimination games in the playoffs so far this season.
Greece and Serbia were the only two teams that made it through the group stage of EuroBas ket with unbeaten records, both 5-0 and led by a pair of two-time NBA MVPs — Antetokounmpo for Greece, Nikola Jokic for Serbia.Then came the knock out stage, and the records no longer mattered. Serbia and Jokic were ousted in the round of 16 by Italy; Antetokounmpo and Greece are now gone as well.“We really enjoyed the ride,” Greece coach Dimi trios Itoudis said. “We really enjoyed the journey. I think that we made a lot of people proud with the way that this team per forms. We wanted to go more, but it didn’t happen thisGiannoulistime.”
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That was made known to Fury’s team on Friday, the 258MGT group said, before both parties agreed to halt communication following the death of Queen Eliza beth II on Thursday.
“ContractWarren.will be with you very soon,” Warren said on Twitter.
The other two quarter final games are on tap: France plays Italy, and defending champion Slove nia takes on Poland.
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Joshua’s management group said in a post on Twitter yesterday that its fighter has accepted the terms presented by Fury for a bout on December 3.
“Getlead.to my spots my teammates are putting me in a situation where I’m comfortable,” Wilson said.
Fury’s hopes of land ing a fight with Oleksandr Usyk, who retained the WBA, WBO and IBF belts by beating Joshua in Saudi Arabia last month, were dashed when the Ukrain ian said he did not intend to fight again this year.
THE Bahamas Archery Federation returned from two archery tournaments in the Dominican Repub lic last week with historic, impressive performances from the Caribbean Devel opmental Championships and the Central American and Caribbean qualifying tournament.Theteam, according to federation president David Rahming, returned home on Sunday with four gold medals, three silver and a bronze medal, in addition to producing a number of bestTheperformances.Caribbean Devel opmental Championships was first held in 2017 in Puerto Rico, but it wasn’t until the second version in 2018 that the Bahamas won its first medals. However, after missing the past three years from 2019 to 2022, the federation returned to theThischampionships.yearwasthe first time the tournament was held in two years and it was the first time that archers from outside the English-speaking Carib bean were invited. It is also the first time that a Jamai can team has attended the tournament.DarioHiggs won three gold medals to lead the Bahamas. He shot a 572 in the recurve senior men beginners tournament, which ties the national record set in 2018. He also won a gold medal in
Rahming has served as the president for the past nine years and has seen the federation grow from just a few archers learning the sport and tournament rules to actually becoming very competitive.Hesaid the archers are now winning medals and turning in competi tive performances against world-class athletes in both male and female categories
The response was pretty much immediate from Fury’s British promoter, Frank
The third quarter saw both teams with bumps and bruises. Gray and Natisha Hiedeman left the game with twisted ankles early in the third quar ter. Gray went back to the locker room, but later returned. Jackie Young suffered a busted lip. Wil liams left late in the third with what appeared to be a lower leg injury. Hiedeman and Williams returned to start the fourth quarter. Young returned early in the final period.
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“Archery is a sport for everyone and it is grow ing within the region,” Rahming said. “ It has enormous sports tourism potential as well and The Bahamas is positioned to take every advantage of this.”The team was spon sored by Robin Hood Flour, distributed by Asa H Pritchard.Interested persons wish ing to join the federation are urged to WhatsApp 525-3799 for training timers in Nassau or con tact the YMCA in Grand Bahama for their times on that island.
“He doesn’t have any excuses now not to take it,” Fury said. “He can’t say I’ve low-balled him and offered him 20 or 30%. I’ve offered (his) people 40% — take it or leave Joshua’sit.”promoter, Eddie Hearn, said he would be interested in making the fight if Fury’s offer was serious.Ithas been reported in the British media that the purse for any rematch — if Fury was to lose — would be a 50-50 split.
Las Vegas hit 55 percent (10 of 18) from the floor in the first quarter while the Sun struggled to a 35 per cent clip, hitting just 7 of 20.The Aces continued to apply offensive pressure in the second, led by Plum, who contributed 11 in the quarter.Connecticut was down 14 when coach Curt Miller went big with his lineup, and the Sun responded with a 12-4 run to cut their deficit to six before a Wilson bucket provided the Aces with a 45-37 half time
The unbeaten Fury appears to have gone back on his decision to retire in the wake of beating another British fighter, Dillian Whyte, in front of around 90,000 spectators at Wemb ley Stadium in April.
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“It was a really physical game,” Wagner said. “A lot of points. We found our rhythm really early and I think we did a way better job collectively guarding them in the second half.”
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“It was a hard battle,” said Willy Hernangomez,
at the Tokyo Games last summer — powered into the semifinals by erasing a 15-point deficit and top ping Finland in Tuesday’s firstDownquarterfinal.50-35late in the final half, Spain outscored Finland 65-40 over the game’s final 21 minutes.
used an 11-4 run to open a seven-point advantage.
TEAM BAHAMAS members, from left, are Donte Dorelien, David Rahming, Nikita Varanarta, Lisa Stovel-Rolle, Leron Rolle, Dr Bernato Almira and Dario Higgs. Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. The word comes from the Latin arcus, meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a com petitive sport and recreational activity.
control the rest of the way. Germany now has a chance at what would be just its second medal in its last 13 appearances at EuroBasket. The Germans won the European title in 1993 and were second in 2005; assured of no worse than fourth now, this tour nament will mark their best EuroBasket finish since that silver-medal showing.
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In a video on social media last week, Fury — the WBC champion — said he was willing to offer Joshua 40% of the purse for a title fight before the end of the year.
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Most of the names on Spain’s national team have changed in the last year, with the roster that headed to EuroBasket significantly different from the one that played in the Tokyo Olympics.Theexpectations, how ever, remain the same.
“We showed, one more time, cohesiveness, tough ness, generosity, we shared the ball well,” Spain coach Sergio Scariolo said. “At the end of the day, this is what you can ask to a team which is so inexperienced and so new in this kind of engagement.”Spainreached the EuroBasket semifinals for the 11th consecutive time and will play Germany on Friday for a spot in the final.Dario Brizuela scored 14 points, Rudy Fernan dez added 11 and Lorenzo Brown had 10 for Spain.
Larentza kis scored 18 points on only five shot attempts for Greece; he was 5 for 5 from the field, four of those from 3-point range, and was 4 for 6 from the foul line.
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Juancho’s older brother. “Tough battle for us. ... Our first half was really bad. We started the game not with the right mental ity. And then at halftime, (we said) we’ve got to be us, we’ve got to be us.”
Finland was seeking its first trip to the EuroBasket semifinals.“Well,you see why Spain is always so tough,” Fin land’s Shawn Huff said. “They never give up. We gave it a good shot.”
and both recurve and com poundRahmingdisciplines.saidhe hopes to continue with the upward trend in perfor mances in these categories and hopes to add others in the future. He noted that he is eager to include disabled athletes as other countries have done.
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But Las Vegas’ offensive balance continued into the third, with five different scorers helping the Aces push the lead to 14, out scoring Connecticut 23-17, taking a 68-54 lead into the final period.
the Pan American Cham pionships to be held in Santiago, Chile this November.Thistournament is the main qualifier for the Pan American Games to be held in Rahming,2023. who accom panied the team, said he is very pleased with this year’s performance overall and the progress with the federation in general.
A long-anticipated allBritish heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua appears closer than ever.
Willy Hernangomez scored 27 points, Juan cho Hernangomez added 15 and Spain — with just three players who got any significant playing time
What would have been a fight to be undisputed champion between Joshua and Fury was close to being arranged last year, only for an arbitrator in the United States to rule that Fury was contractually bound to fulfil a third fight with Deontay Wilder.Joshua, who was heavy weight champion at the time, then decided to fight Usyk and lost to the Ukrainian in London.
“We are awaiting a response,” posted the man agement team, which said it was speaking on behalf of Joshua along with the fight er’s promoter, Matchroom.
“I think this is unbelieva ble for German basketball, the way this team, the way these players have performed on their home soil up to now,” Germany coach Gordie Herbert said. “I think the way they’ve played, the way we’ve played, people can relate to. They see an identity.”
Tyler Dorsey added 13 for Greece.Franz Wagner and Andreas Obst had 19 points apiece for Germany, which plays Spain in Fri day’s semifinals.
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the recurve mixed team matches.Bernado Almira won a gold medal in the Barebow division, which was con tested for the first time in this year’s tournament. He was also the first person from Grand Bahama to compete for Team Baha mas hopefulElibbeanCentralqualifyingBahamas,wasPuertomenttoroundsnatedshottournament.theBahamasotherTeamtheEventshotandunderbronzemixedtionsseniormedalstionalanytionallyTeamfemalebecameLisainternationally.Stovel-RolleonlythesecondtocompeteforBahamasinternabutthefirsttowinmedalsataninternaevent.Shewontwosilverinthecompoundwomencompetiandabronzeintheteamcompetitions.DonteDorelienwonamedalintherecurve18division.HeStevenHannaJr,whointheWorldRankingtournament,wereyoungestmembersofBahamas.LeronRollewasthememberofTeamtocompeteinWorldRankingEventBothHannaandRollewellbutwereelimibeforethefinalthistime,accordingRahming.RolleshotthistournaearlierthisyearinRicowhereheamemberofTeamwhoearnedtwospotstothenextAmericanandCarGamestobeheldinSalvadorin2023.HannaJrandRolleareofcompetingin
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Spain opened the third quarter on a 17-5 run, more than setting the tone for its comeback.LauriMarkkanen scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Finland, while Mikael Jantunen scored 13, Alexander Madsen had 13 and Sasu Salin added 11.
quarterfinal basketball match between Germany and Greece in Berlin, Germany, yesterday.
Fury turned his sights on Joshua, who said after the Usyk fight that he intended to work his way back up to being a three-time cham pion — potentially facing opponents in the second tier of the heavyweight divi sion — after losing three of his last five bouts.
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The 19-year-old Alcaraz said following Monday’s traditional Times Squad photo shoot that he “woke up dead” after the four-set final against Ruud.
different players score. It was Porto’s fourth straight loss in the Champions League going back to last season.Struggling
Australia made it 3-0 after Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell defeated Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen 6-1, 6-3 in the clos ing doubles match.
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Liverpool needed an 89th-minute goal to get its first win of the Euro pean campaign. Joel Matip headed home a corner to give last year’s runner-up a 2-1 home win over Ajax, bouncing back from a 4-1 loss to Napoli in the open ing round. Napoli’s game at Rangers was postponed until Wednesday because of limited police resources in Scotland following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
the opening tie against Argentina, the 2016 Davis CupThechampions.24-year-old Mikael Ymer is No. 98 in the world, while the 26-yearold Elias Ymer is ranked 119th.Three other venues — Valencia in Spain, Hamburg in Germany and Glasgow in Scotland — are hosting group-stage matches ahead of the single-venue quarterfinals that will be played in the southern city of Málaga in November.InGroup C in Hamburg, Alex de Minaur cruised past David Goffin 6-2, 6-2 to lead Australia to victory over Belgium. Min aur’s win followed Jason Kubler’s 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 tri umph over Zizou Bergs. The 22nd-ranked De Minaur had already defeated Goffin the last time the nations met in the Davis Cup Finals three years ago in Madrid.
“I’m very proud to arrive as No. 1 and do my bit for the team,” Alcaraz said yesterday.“Playing the Davis Cup is always special. It’s a unique atmosphere and I’m look ing forward to being with theAlcarazteam.” made it to Valencia the day before Spain was to debut against Serbia in the group stage on Wednesday.Itwasn’t yet clear in which condition Alcaraz arrived after having to play a gruelling series of matches on his way to the title in New “HopefullyYork.he can recover as soon as possi ble,” Spain captain Sergi Bruguera said. “We don’t know yet if he will be able to play on Wednesday.”
Many expected Alcaraz to skip the Davis Cup after defeating Casper Ruud in Sunday’s US Open final, which allowed him to become the youngest man to lead the ATP comput erised rankings since they began in 1973.
Great Britain team led by AndyTop-rankedMurray. Croatia is in Group A along with an Italian team playing at home and led by Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner, who lost to Alcaraz in the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows in a five-setRussiathriller.willnot be able to defend its title from last year after being banned from international team competitions because of the nation’s invasion of Ukraine.
The 33-year-old Williams will be taking a 5-1-4 winloss-knockout record into the match against Arriaga, a 32-year-old American
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Abdul-Afeez Osoba after he slipped and fell when his opponent countered with an onslaught. Hield is hoping to join Williams in fighting as a pro next month. He’s just waiting on the deal to be sealed.
Williams made his pro debut in 2019 when he won over Carlos Monroy on February 9 at the Res taurant Los Olvidados in Playa del Carmen. He lost his second bout on March 22 to Javaune James at the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida, before he got back on the winning track with a deci sion over Jurland Ceniza on December 21 in Tipanoy, IliganArriaga,City. who resides in San Antonio, Texas, is coming off a TKO loss to American Xavier Madrid on November 20, 2021 at the Inn Of The Mountain Goods in Williams,Mescalaro.along with Carl Hield, represented the Bahamas at the Com monwealth Games in Birmingham in August.
Plzen was reduced to 10 men in the 60th minute, with the score 1-0, when midfielder Pavel Bucha was shown a red card after a VAR review of his foul on Nicolò Barella.
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Liverpool got the win it so badly needed, but it was another performance that highlighted that Jurgen Klopp’s team is no longer the high-scoring machine it onceLiverpoolwas. struggled to convert its possession into goals in the second half and then needed the aid of goalline technology to show that Matip’s late header crossed the line before cleared by a defender.Mohamed Salah had ear lier ended his run of seven Champions League games without a goal by putting the team ahead in the 17th, but Mohammed Kudus
By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer
He had one fight in 2021 on September 18 when he won a KO decision over Dylan Dodds at the Alessi Gym Fitness Center in Tampa, Florida.
Group B is throwing up some surprising results so far, with Club Brugge atop the standings after rout ing Porto 4-0 away for its second straight win. For ward Ferran Jutgla had a goal and an assist for Brugge, which saw four
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Paulinho glanced in a header from a corner in the 90th minute and Arthur Gomes added the second in the third minute of stop page time when he cut in
Williams had to shed about 11 pounds to make the weight for the light wel terweight division where he lost on points to Namibia’s Jonas Jonas. Hield, 35, got stopped in the first round against Nigeria’s
The United States will be without Frances Tiafoe, who lost to Alcaraz in the semifinals at the U.S. Open.The Americans will be led by Taylor Fritz in Group D, which also has a
Klopp had urged Liver pool fans to show respect during the tribute to the queen, who died last week at the age of 96, after some of the club’s supporters booed the national anthem ahead of the FA Cup final last season. And the period of silence was respectfully observed, except for a few random shouts that were quickly hushed.
PRO BOXER RASHIELD WILLIAMS TO SQUARE OFF WITH AMERICAN ARRIAGA
Tottenham had not lost a game in any competition this season before a pair of Sporting substitutes ended that unbeaten run.
hospitality once the game started. After Lewan dowski missed several good chances to score in the first half, Lucas Hernández and Leroy Sané scored within a five-minute span in the second as Bayern took con trol of Group C with two wins in two games.
southpaw, who is 2-4-2 with two“Idraws.feelgood. I think this is a good opportunity for me because I just signed with a professional boxing com pany, so I am ready to show them what I can do,” said Williams, who indicated that they have expressed a desire for him to be fighting on a regular basis.
Goffin had won 26 of his 30 singles matches in
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from the left wing, darted between two Tottenham defenders and shot between the legs of goalkeeper HugoTheLloris.Portuguese team had spent most of the game under pressure and look ing to hit Tottenham on the counterattack.InMarseille, Lind strøm took advantage of a defensive error in the 43rd minute to score the winner forTottenhamFrankfurt. and Frank furt have three points, with Marseille last on zero.
Bayer Leverkusen upset Atlé tico Madrid 2-0 for just its second win of the season after six defeats in eight games across all competitions.RobertAndrich and Moussa Diaby scored late for the German team.
BOXERS RASHIELD WILLIAMS, left, and Carl Hield, far right, with coach Vincent Strachan at the Commonwealth Games in Bir mingham, England, last month.
Sporting Lisbon also moved to six points in Group D after netting two late goals to beat Tot tenham 2-0 at home. The other group game between Marseille and Eintracht Frankfurt was marred by fan disturbances before kickoff, forcing riot police to intervene when opposing supporters launched flares and fireworks at each other. Frankfurt won the game 1-0 thanks to a first-half goal from Jesper Lindstrøm.
(Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
the Davis Cup entering this year’s edition of the competition.Kubler,ranked No. 97, earned his victory in his Davis Cup debut for the team captained by Lleyton Hewitt. The 29-year-old Kubler is in the top 100 for the first time since 2018.
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just to make the weight for the fight,” Williams said. “Now I’m much stronger because I’m right where I need to be for this fight.”
The Ymer brothers keep coming through for Sweden in the Davis Cup Finals.Ayear after leading the Swedes to a surprising run to the quarterfinals, Elias Ymer and Mikael Ymer got off to a good start and led their nation to vic tory over Argentina in the opening of the group-stage matches yesterday.
Spain will debut on Wednesday against Serbia, which won’t count on Novak Djokovic.
After losing 3-0 to Bayern in both group meet ings last season — and with the 8-2 drubbing in the 2020 quarterfinals still fresh in memory — there was hope among Barcelona fans that things would be different with Lewandowski on their side.Instead it was just more of the Aftersame.the Poland striker was theagainsthasBosniaothertheanagain.bettergame,insideandlater,secondgreatincareer,manyformerminute.homeupwhenLewandowskiHernandezwastefuluncharacteristicallyinthefirsthalf,didhisbestimpressionthedefenderpoppedatthenearposttoheadacornerinthe50thItwasthekindofgoalhisteammatescoredsoofduringhisBayernwhenhenetted344eightyears.Sanethenpulledoffasoloeffortforthejustfourminutesburstingintothearearollingacalmfinishthefarpost.IntheotherGroupCEdinDžekogottheofViktoriaPlzenDžekohadonegoalandassistasInterMilanbeatCzechclub2-0intheGroupCgame.Theinternationalnow10goalsinninematchesPlzen,andnineinlastsix.
NOW that he’s back in his comfort zone, Bahamian professional boxer Rashield Williams said he intends to take his frustrations from the Commonwealth Games out on American Daniel Arriaga when they meet on SaturdayWilliams,night. eliminated on points in his first and only bout at the games in Birmingham, England in August, is scheduled to square off against Arriaga in a welterweight match at the Alessi Gym Fitness Center in Tampa, Florida.
Ymer brothers lead Sweden past Argentina in the Davis Cup Finals
“We will see how he is feeling, we will discuss it with him,” Bruguera said. “The sooner he can play, theBeforebetter.”the final, Alcaraz had three consecutive fiveset victories, including a 5-hour, 15-minute quarter final match against Jannik Sinner.“We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later,” Bruguera said. “But the way he won three matches in five sets is an incredible effort mentally as well as physically. Being the young est No. 1 in the world, there aren’t any words.”
BARCELONA’s Robert Lewandowski (9) shoots a free kick yesterday against Munich during a Champions League, group C soccer match between Bayern Munich and Barcelona at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.
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A period of silence was held before Liverpool’s game, while Bayern fans showed their displeasure with UEFA allowing the British monarch’s death to disrupt the schedule by holding up a banner read ing: “Last minute match delays and bans because of a royal’s death? Respect fans!”
“There’s a way to work around fighting a south paw,” he said. “I want to go in there and knock him out. He’s not going to be any match for Williams’me.”last pro fight was on January 28 when he won a TKO over Daniel Molina at the Hialeah Park Racing & Casino in Hia leah, Florida.
After he returned to Florida from the Common wealth Games, Williams said he got right into his training camp and has been working on getting ready for his return to the pro ranks. During the games, as a pro, he was afforded the opportunity to compete with the amateurs.
After facing Serbia, which is without Novak Djokovic, Spain takes on Canada on Friday and South Korea on Sunday in Group B. The top two teams in each of the four groups will advance to the quarterfinals, which will be played in November in the southern Spanish city of Málaga. 1
equalized when he created space in the area before smashing an unstoppable shot in off the underside of the crossbar in the 27th.
In Group D in Glasgow, the Netherlands was ahead of Kazakhstan 1-0 after Tallon Griekspoor beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1, 3-6,
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Elias Ymer defeated Sebastián Báez 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4), while his younger brother Mikael Ymer later comfortably beat Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 6-2 in the Group A matches in Bologna.The Ymer brothers, Sweden’s top-ranked play ers, had helped Sweden succeed last year despite being one of the lowestranked nations in the competition.TheSwedes again weren’t the favourites in
“I had to build my weight back up because at the Commonwealth Games, I had to lose about 11 pounds
Germany and France are the other teams in Group C.In Group B in Valencia, Canada was leading Davis Cup Finals newcomer South Korea 1-0 after Vasek Pospisil rallied to defeat Hong Seong-Chan 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5).
SWEDEN’s Elias Ymer celebrates after beating Sebastian Baez, of Argentina, after their Davis Cup tennis match in Bologna, Italy, yesterday.
will advance to the quarterfinals.Newworld No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz arrived in Valencia yesterday two days after winning the US Open.
(Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
MADRID (AP) — It was a quick turnaround for tennis’ new No. 1. Hours after celebrating his first Grand Slam title at the US Open, Carlos Alcaraz arrived back home to try to help Spain in the Davis Cup Finals.
Williams said he doesn’t know much about his oppo nent, except for the fact that Arriaga is a southpaw.
“This transaction came about, we were able to sign an agreement, and are quite excited about creat ing a new home for Cost Right, while taking the Sol omon’s store and creating a neighbourhood food store aligned with what we’ve done in Exuma and aligned with what we believe is the future for AML Foods, which is smaller neighbour hood stores. I believe we are going to create a real power destination.”
It is understood that AML Foods is purchas ing the existing Solomon’s SuperCentre building portion from Solomon Brothers Ltd, which is owned by Martin Solomon and his family. Cost Right’s present Town Centre Mall lease is also a related party transaction as that property is owned 50 percent by the Symonette family. Craig Symonette is one of the larger, though not a major ity, shareholder in AML Foods.The BISX-listed food group yesterday disclosed to investors that the $17m East-West Highway prop erty purchase and remodel is being financed by a $20m Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) credit facility carry ing an interest rate below Bahamian Prime. The rate is Prime (4.25 percent) minus 0.65 percent, peg ging it at 3.6 percent, and highlighting how some lenders are willing to accept relatively low returns in an
unveiled a 35 percent yearover-year net profit increase to $1.3m for its 2023 third quarter as compared to $1m last year. “Sales for the period were $43.8m, an improvement of $0.9m or 2.1 percent compared to the same quarter last year,” Mr Watchorn said in his mes sage to shareholders for the three months to end-July 2022.“Net operating profit increased by $0.3m pri marily due to an increase in other operating income and improved results from our Exuma operations. Although sales improved during the quarter over prior year, gross margins were lower than expected due to vendor price increases.“Despite our best efforts to manage through better buying, increases in sup plier and freight costs have impacted our margins in recent months. Inven tory levels are also slightly elevated compared to the same period last year as a result of the increased
“During the quarter, selling, general and admin istrative expenses were comparable to the prior year quarter as a percent age of sales at 28.4 percent (2021: 28.6 percent).”
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clothing inventories as it prepares for these to transi tion to Cost Right. “I know some customers have been concerned because they are noticing the changes in the store already,” he added, “as there categories we are transitioning out of as we get ready for this.
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“We needed the right real estate transaction to invest for the long-term,” he told Tribune Business. “We’ve signed the sales agreement. It hasn’t closed yet, and we hope to close in 60 days. We don’t expect any issues that will prevent a closing.
costs of goods, as well as improved stock levels fol lowing large out-of-stocks in prior year brought on by supplier restraints following COVID.”MrWatchorn added that profits for the 2022 financial year’s fourth quar ter had been overstated due to a timing “cut-off error” associated with its new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, resulting in a $0.7m down ward
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effort to cut the banking system’s $2bn-plus in sur plus“It’sliquidity.about putting in place funding that provides for the long-term. We think it’s a good facility for us, and sets up our finances longer-term and allows us to do more projects in the future,” Mr Watchorn said. The RBC credit facil ity, which was signed in August, will be drawn down in stages over the next 12-18 months.Design work on the remodelled Solomon’s SuperCentre location has already begun, and the nec essary equipment will be ordered in February 2023 due to the “substantially longer lead times” that companies are grappling with due to the supply chain backlogs.Construction work on the Cost Right side will begin in May next year, and is expected to be completed in several months. The retail format will relocate from the Town Centre Mall “towards the end of 2023” and, after a work pause for Christmas, the Solomon’s store will see its fit out start in early 2024. The construc tion element is expected to take ten months total, plac ing completion at around March/AprilConfirming2024.that both stores will remain open during this process, Mr Watchorn said Solomon’s SuperCentre was reducing its general merchandise and
Mr Watchorn said the acquisition, and the low interest rate $20m facility that will finance the deal, will “set the foundation for the long-term growth and development” of AML Foods with the entire EastWest Highway project scheduled for completion around March 2024.
“Duringadjustment.theperiod, net cash balances decreased by $1.6m,” he said of the 2023 first quarter. “$1.3m was spent on various capi tal projects including the ongoing build out of our downtown Freeport store. Construction at the loca tion continues to progress and the store is expected to open in late 2022.
“We fully expect to retain all those sales. We will just have it under one roof rather than two.” Besides removing the rental costs associated with the pre sent two store locations, the AML chief added that “a lot of efficiencies will accrue from this transac tion” although he declined to identify a figure. Opera tions will also be simplified through having smaller formats.“Thesavings will start to accrue immediately to us on purchasing the building, as we eliminate the rent we are paying on it,” Mr Watchorn explained. “All staff will be retained. Any working on general merchandise and clothing at Solomon’s will shift to Cost Right and be absorbed in Cost Right.
AML: $17m will create ‘real power destination’
“It’s a significant trans action for us and quite strategic as it looks at out two oldest sites, out two legacy stores. It sets them up for the future, secures the future for them, and secures them strategically for AML Foods for the long-term.”CostRight’s Town Centre Mall lease is due to expire within the next two years, and Mr Watchorn said AML Foods wanted to put it “into a facility more suited for the club format” with tall spaces. “Town Centre Mall has been good to us, but it’s time to move on and reinvest in the busi ness,” he added. “At Town Centre Mall, we’re not going to invest heavily in a location we won’t be in for the long-term.
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“I gave a commitment to the teams at both stores today that if we are not able to absorb them there we will find a place for them. It’s our intention to retain everybody affected by this because we have some good people. We’ll find a home forAMLthem.”Foods announced its Solomon’s SuperCen tre/Cost Right plans as it
Gov’t hit over VAT assistance delays
The Davis administra tion will also likely point out that the 2021-2022 fig ures are up against weak comparatives from the year before, when there was little to no travel due to COVID lockdowns, border closures and other restric tions. It will also counter that The Bahamas needs to enhance its presence on the world stage, especially on climate change issues, and forge relationships to advance its interests that can only be accomplished byMeanwhile,travelling. the Govern ment’s spending on leases for its rents and office increased by almost $22m or 35 percent year-over-year
cannot dismiss the cries of people in need. The defi cit is under-stated; there should have been ben efits distributed to those in need by the RISE pro gramme. They delayed the implementation, and should naturally expect the criticism.”WhenThe Bahamas first implemented the low-rate, broad-based VAT model at 7.5 percent in 2015, it was argued that increased social assistance should be provided to lower income Bahamians to cushion the tax’s impact rather than ‘exempt’ so-called bread basket foods and other necessities because this would undermine compli ance and administrative efficiency.
“Of course we have to break the cycle, so the RISE programme is always intended to take you and lift you above being below the poverty line because you want to get more Baha mians out of dependence into thatfull-yeartooshouldMrment’sTurningindependence.”totheGovernfiscalperformance,BowesaidBahamians“notgettoohighorlow”onthe2021-2022outturn.“IthinkIwoulddescribeitlike
The Minnis adminis tration overturned this position by introducing ‘zero ratings’ and ‘exemp tions’ when it raised VAT to 12 percent, only for the Davis administration to eliminate them and revert to the 2015 model albeit with a 10 percent VAT.
“We’re still not com pletely done. We have to face the impacts of inflation. Inflation is going to cost government because its cost of goods and services goes up..... It’s a flat platform, and hopefully we’re coming to the end. We’re not quite rolling through, but hope fully on the last minor up and down with respect to inflation and, hopefully, the platform is stable.”
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being collected on bread basket foods such as rice and grits be redistributed to lower income Bahami ans to help them cope with the higher cost of living. The RISE programme was designed to distribute this social assistance via debit cards, with recipients in return fulfilling condi tions such as ensuring their children regularly attend school.Obie Wilchcombe, min ister of social services and urban development, said at the end of August 2022 that the RISE initiative was some two months away from launching. “The RISE programme was a pro gramme that was intended to provide and monitor the growth and development of the clients we have,” he said at the time.
“I’m not speaking to the woods,” he added. “This should not be one where we’re looking at the forest, but we definitely need to look at a few trees.” Other wise, Mr Bowe warned, the fiscal figures are left “open to interpretation” and “noise in the market”.
higher office rent costs ($11.5m) and lease agree ments relative to the National Insurance Board ($8.9m).... Special finan cial transactions, which include payment of arrears, increased by $36m (28.5
percent) to $162.2m, and exceeded the budget by 9.3 percent.”MrThompson sought to downplay the $700.7m year-over-year increase in government revenues as “to be expected and no surprise”, arguing that this trend began when the Minnis administration was in office with 2021-2022 first quarter revenues finish ing more than $92m above projections.DrHubert Minnis, the former prime min ister, also asserted that the original revenue esti mates in May 2021 were conservative due to the then-continued uncertain ties over the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased revenues were driven by the economy’s re-opening, and the end of lockdowns and other restrictions such as curfews, which the Davis administration has sought to take credit Meanwhile,for.Mr Thomp son tried to link the fiscal performance to inflation and the cost of living crisis, arguing that “life is not better for most Bahamians” due to high food, gasoline and energy prices.
($18.8m); special employ ment programmes ($1.7m); discretionary allowances ($1.8m); summer employ ment ($1.4m),” the Ministry of Finance said.
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Despite a $124.7m or 50.9 percent contraction in social assistance spending as COVID-19 support fell away, the Government’s
Mr Bowe has previously argued that the VAT now
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The Ministry of Finance figures will likely be seized upon by the Opposition to mount renewed attacks, even though $11.8m is relatively miniscule when compared to the Govern ment’s $3bn-plus spending for the 2021-2022 full year. However, given the magni tude of The Bahamas’ fiscal crisis, every dollar counts, although it is unclear how much of the travel spend relates to the Minnis admin istration which was in office for the fiscal year’s first twoand-a-half months.
total expenditure for 20212022 still rose by $142m or 4.9 percent to $3.015bn when compared to the prior fiscal“Compensationyear. of employees increased by $24.4m (3.5 percent) to $725.3m, and repre sented 92.7 percent of the budget target. This firming was largely explained by period-over-period expan sions in employee wages
we’re hoping we’re coming to the latter part of a roller coaster ride,” he told Trib une Business. “There’s been ups, and bumps and spins, because there are so many things coming at us.
Mr Bowe also reiterated previous calls for more indepth Budget analysis that identified areas of strength and weakness, and the gov ernment policies that are both succeeding and failing,
so Bahamians and other observers can have greater understanding of why this is so as well as help to achieve the necessary adjustments.
“Rental costs rose by $21.6m (34.9 percent) to $83.5m for 98.8 per cent of the budget. This rise is mainly driven by
“This increase in expend iture is largely attributed to the resumption of promo tions, staff reclassifications, payment of increments and other employee costs delayed in the past year due to fiscal constraints.”
for the 12 months to endJune 2022. “Spending on the use of goods and ser vices widened by $19.8m (3.2 percent) to $633.4m, relative to the same period in the prior year. This accounted for 93 percent of the annual budget,” the Ministry of Finance said.
While the Government has argued that the rate cut, from 12 percent to 10 percent, has reduced the overall tax burden for Bahamians since it is spread across a broad range of VAT-able goods, it has also increased the cost of previously zero rated and exempt items at a time when imported inflation ary pressures are eroding spending power and dispos able incomes, thus creating a cost of living crisis.
“We’ve seen that in the last 12 months,” he said. “Both political parties throw mud at each other, and neither demonstrates empirically how it’s played out. This is not Monopoly money; it’s the taxpayers’ money. We make decisions not by the roll of the dice but by empirical analysis, and that goes for Opposi tion and the Government.”
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“If you are entered into the programme, what you want to do is break the vicious cycle of continu ation to the programme where your children — you’re required to do certain things so that the programme can see a change in your behavioural patterns to move people away from the process.
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“That’s what we need. The more important thing is work is going on at that airport. I believe that is the more important thing; that we try to make sure we have something in place to handle a few more flights. Nothing is going to happen overnight.”MrAlnebeck said he, too, was in “wait and see”
Many observers believe the situation will not improve until the Grand Lucayan and Grand Bahama International Air port are redeveloped into world-class facilities. How ever, Mr Alnebeck argued that the emphasis needed to be placed on attracting airlift rather than upgrad ing the airport, adding that the latter needs merely to be functional based on Exu ma’s“Theyexperience.don’t have the most fantastic airport but they have the airlift,” the
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Thevehicles.ex-City Markets headquarters and ware house was the main asset owned by the failed super market chain’s employee pension plan, which was formally called the Baha mas Supermarkets Ltd Profit Sharing Retirement Plan. Branding the situ ation “unfortunate”, Mr Watchorn told Tribune Business: “We’ve given a real go at trying to get a deal done and settlement down“Wethere.appreciate there are some pensioners still wait ing to get their retirement benefits out of that transac tion, but unfortunately we were unsuccessful in get ting all parties to agree to what we had offered. From a business perspective, we have to move on and let it run through the legal procedures and see what comes out of that. I am con fident AML has done what it can to get a settlement, but at this point we’re just resolved to let the matter be addressed through the court.“We believe we’ve exhausted.... we put a lot of work into trying to get an agreement everybody could be happy with and, unfortunately, we were not successful in getting that done. We wanted to do right by everybody, but ultimately had to move on.
No overnight flight crews in Freeport for 7-8 years
Mr Watchorn acknowl edged there were concerns from an AML Foods shareholder perspective “in having funds tied up in an asset we don’t have use of”, meaning the portion of the purchase price that has already been paid. It is now a decade since City Markets collapsed, and almost six years to the day that AML Foods signed the deal to purchase the former head office, and the retirees are no nearer to seeing monies long due to them.
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Despite Freeport’s strug gles, Mr Alnebeck said
“Strategically, we cannot wait. We have a business to run, and have to make the best decision for the business. For Cost Right, there’s no secret that we’ve been looking for a new home for some time, and this transaction [involving the Solomon’s SuperCen tre building] came up.” Rather than the former City Markets headquarters, Cost Right will instead be relocating several hundred
AML Foods alleged that BSL Retirement Plan Ltd was part-owned and controlled by Mark Finaly son’s family, with his father, mother and two sisters among the directors. Even though a majority of ben eficiaries voted against the BSL Retirement Plan transaction, AML Foods claimed the former pen sion trustees, formerassetsmentvalue,inplan’sexchangingtrusteesarguedanyway.proceedingex-CitytheirConstanceTurnquest-KnowlesChristineandRolle,breachedfiduciarydutiestoMarketsstaffbytoexecuteitTheBISX-listedgroupthattheformerwereeffectivelythepensionkeyassetforsharesacompanythathadnosinceBSLRetirePlanLtdhadzerountilitobtainedtheheadofficeproperty.
Mr Watchorn declined to detail AML Foods’ set tlement offer. And he did not name the other three parties, or identify the two that had consented to AML Foods’ proposal or the one that rejected it. However, based on previous Tribune Business articles on the City Markets head office saga, one party is likely to be the employee pension plan’s trustees, Dennis Williams and Rosalie McKenzie.
While AML Foods was able to secure a written agreement to its proposal from one other side, and a verbal approval from another, it was unable to gain acceptance from the third and final party. “At this point we’re going to leave it to the court to work it out,” Mr Watchorn said. “There are a number of matters before the court, which I cannot comment on.
yards up the road on the East-West Highway.
Court filings seen by this newspaper detailed several alleged transactions involv ing the former head office and Finlayson family corpo rate
The documents detailed alleged efforts to carve-up the 6.52-acre prop erty via a series of related party deals. These involved several “unrecorded and unstamped” conveyances purporting to transfer the now-derelict building and its associated warehouse to different corporate vehi cles, many of which were “at least part owned or con trolled” by the Finlayson family.Inparticular, the BISXlisted group details a May 2014 scheme where the pension beneficiaries would agree to transfer the exCity Markets headquarters building to a vehicle called BSL Retirement Plan Ltd in exchange for shares in that entity. In doing so, they would also give up their interest in the pension plan.
CITY MARKETS RETIREES IN FRESH PENSION BLOW
The impasse largely stems from relations between the other three parties, rather than AML Foods, whose purchase has effectively been caught in the middle of their dispute. AML Foods’ latest annual report, for the 2022 financial year, said: “On September 21, 2016, the company signed an agreement to purchase a building located at Sol dier Road industrial site for $3.359m.“Subsequent to the pay ment of the final purchase price in July 2017, a dis pute arose as to the ability of the vendors [the pension fund trustees] to provide good title to the property. This dispute is currently before the Supreme Court. Included in other assets is $3.138m which excludes VAT.”Previous legal filings by AML Foods, which were detailed in an earlier 2020 Supreme Court judgment by Justice Diane Stewart, alleged that the BISX-listed group was battling a series of “opaque” transactions as it seeks to uphold “the validity” of its acquisition.
six times the amount of air lift we have in Freeport.”
mode and “hoping for the best” with just one day to go before Electra America Hospitality Group’s due diligence period for the Grand Lucayan expires on September 15. That is the deadline for the prospec tive buyer to pay the $5m deposit towards the $100m purchase price, unless it is extended or new terms are agreed.Freeport business sources have told Tribune Business there is a growing sense of unease over whether Electra America’s Grand Lucayan acquisition will proceed to a closing given both the property’s history
and lack of information on the sale’s progress.
Mr Alnebeck, like this newspaper, confirmed he had heard suggestions that other potential Freeport and Grand Bahama inves tors are placing their plans on hold until there is con firmation of the Grand Lucayan’s fate. “There’s very little if any activ ity,” he added. “It’s a hard destination to get excited about until we know what happens.”Asfor the Grand Lucayan, he said: “It started as a Sheraton and Westin, then became a Radisson and then became a Memo ries, then a Lighthouse Point. It’s in desperate need of figuring out a formula that will actually work.”
Pelican Bay continues to be boosted by the Grand Bahama Shipyard. “We actually had a decent first two weeks in September due to the fact Crowley had a dry dock in Grand Bahama, so we had a sub stantial amount of room nights associated with that,” he told Tribune Business. “The first two weeks in September were better than they normally are. That’s what happens. We had one ship in dry dock, and got 35 rooms for 20 days. It makes a big impact for us. We’re running about 50 percent [occupancy], which is better than the 30 percent we ran in ChesterAugust.”Cooper, deputy prime minister, previ ously said there were three remaining bid ders for the contract to
redevelop Grand Bahama International Airport via a public-private partner ship (PPP) model with the Government. However, the Government may have to begin the necessary upgrades itself prior to the selection of a winning bidder.Electra America’s plans involve three resort prop erties. A four to five-star branded luxury lifestyle hotel, featuring 198 rooms and 24 villas and targeted at corporate and leisure busi ness; a four-star convention hotel with 535 rooms, fea turing an amphitheatre and convention centre; and a 257-room condo-hotel style family resort with suites that are double the size of the Grand Lucayan’s exist ing rooms.
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Another is likely to be the Finlayson family. Mark Fin layson, via his Trans-Island Traders vehicle, and his family, headed by Sir Garet ‘Tiger’ Finlayson, were the majority 78 percent owners of City Markets and its immediate parent, Baha mas Supermarkets, when the company collapsed and ceased operating in 2012.
resolution was not accepted and that the retail group has “exhausted” all possible remedies.Headded that it will now be up to the Supreme Court, and judicial system, to resolve the fate of the 6.52-acre property that also includes a warehouse facil ity and is part of the Soldier Road Industrial Park. The legal process will likely take several further years, and the AML Foods chief said the property “continues to deteriorate” in the absence of a settlement - a develop ment that will further cut the monies obtained by retirees from any eventual sale.“We believe we had pur chased the former City Markets building with the intention to relocate Cost Right there,” Mr Watchorn told Tribune Business. “It’s been subject to various liti gation. At AML, we had worked quite hard towards the end of 2021 into early 2022 with the various par ties to reach some kind of settlement, some kind of agreement.”Whilenot providing any details, he explained that the proposal was designed to satisfy the interests of all sides involved in the dispute while also enabling AML Foods’ purchase to pro ceed. Besides the Solomon’s and Cost Right owner, Mr Watchorn said three other parties were involved, making a total of four.
It’s unfortunate that the facility continues to dete riorate, and it’s unfortunate the pensioners are still wait ing on funds. They have to continue to wait to get a retirement from that.”
Pelican Bay chief said. “We sometimes think it’s the air port and not the airlift, but that’s not the case. Having a nice airport is not going to solve it. We need to have the product that drives the demand, that drives the airlift, and then need an air port to deal with that airlift.
by Fidelity Bank (Baha mas), and arranged via the SBDC’s Access Accel erator, will be invested in setting up a pharmacy that is due to open in seven weeks as part of Hurricane Hole’s redevelopment.Pledgingtoset the busi ness apart from rivals by offering products that tra ditional pharmacies do not, Mr Gray said: “It is under a different kind of market niche. It’s what I refer to as a boutique pharmacy, and it has some
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business will flow and whether this is the right time to get in. It’s easy for people to just be afraid and say that they will get involved in new ventures when the economy gets more stable.”
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The pharmacy, part of Sterling Global’s multimillion dollar Paradise Landing venture, will also have nurses on duty to help with other screening and other medical processes.
A GAS station opera tor yesterday conceded that high global oil prices make it a “challenging time” to take on his fourth New Providence location with the recently-re-opened Esso South Beach site.
once that’s happening, the economy’s going to bounce back. As we see with all hotels being full and all of that other stuff.
Paul Hepburn told Trib une Business “you have to have faith” that the eco nomic climate, and industry business model, will improve while asserting that he has
Tribune Business that the financing provided
necessary to take care of our patients,” Mr Gray said. “And by only offer ing products we know have a track record of proven therapeutic value and client satisfaction. That’s where we set the standard of care. We love it when our patients rave about a product or service.“There are four different membership programmes: Essentials, wellness, beauty and executive, starting at $35 a month. These memberships will include
didn’t. So they came to me. I think I was the last resort,” he“Iadded.am not brand new, but I’m experienced. Things happen and people back out. There is no end of things that could have gone wrong and people just change their mind. With COVID-19 there were a lot of losses during that time, and shortly after coming out of the COVID-19 lock downs we had the war in Ukraine, causing prices to goWhileup.” global oil price volatility will not deter Mr Hepburn, he warned: “No one can predict how
It will be located on the ground floor of Paradise Landing’s commercial and employ seven persons.
(NSA) chairman, Greg Burrows.Sol Petroleum, the conglomerateBarbados-headquarteredthatowns the Esso-branded wholesale business in The Bahamas, previously said Mr Burrows’ replacement would be a “young and new” dealer. Mr Hepburn said he became the go-to options after discus sions with Sol Petroleum’s first candidate fell through.
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A consultation room, where consumers can enjoy quality time with “empa thy and compassion” when speaking with a pharmacist, or being assessed, is part of the offering. Privacy for patients with chronic dis eases is also a key focus.
the necessary experience to revive his latest venture.
“The station was closed, and it just so happened that unbeknown to me that they were looking [for a new operator] and I had already thought they had found someone, but they
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delivery services to your home or office. The Beauty programme boasts regu lar skincare check-ups, quarterly Botox injections, a chemical peel and dis counts on other services and products.“Meanwhile, the Execu tive programme will provide for a personal healthcare assistant to keep track of appointments and pre scription refills, delivery services, urgent care visits and 24-hour access to the pharmacists.”
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“I’m a multi-site dealer,” he explained. “This is my fourth site, so it’s not new to me. I have been in the business since March 2009, so this is something I have experience in.” Mr Hepburn also manages Esso-branded gas stations at Oakes Field, Blue Hill Road and Faith Avenue
amenities. We are doing what is called the medication therapeutic management system, which is a consulta tion form of practice that goes beyond just the stenting aspect, but also some clini cal assessment of patients and assisting them with their medication management.”
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However,locations.he acknowl edged that he was not first choice to take over a South Beach location that was formerly operated by ex-Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) senator, and current National Sports Authority
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“I’m a multi-site dealer, and I thought the worst was behind us. That was COVID-19. I did not see the Ukraine war. So I thought we were going to be smooth sailing for a while, and I expected things to have set tled down by now. But you have to have faith. I mean, the people want to travel. They have pent-up frustra tion; they want to travel, and
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“One of the things that sets us apart from the phar macy world is that we’re going to do whatever is
“But, of course, when we sold petroleum at $7.39 a gallon that was really rough because business was almost non-existent. You’re buying oil at a very high price, and then people aren’t buying that much and all the busi nesses dropped, but that’s not every day. We’ve seen some really unpredictable things, and no one could have predicted what we’ve come across. I never thought I’d see where three of my stations were shut down one day. I never thought I’d see that.”
‘Challenging time’ for gas dealer’s fourth site
morning departures the following day had put an end to overnighting apart from when an occasional crew that was part of Sun wing/Memories summer airlift initiative was present.“It’sfallen off a lot,” Mr Alnebeck said of Grand Bahama’s airlift. “We are number five or six now when it comes to air arriv als. We’re behind Marsh Harbour (Abaco), Bimini, North Eleuthera and Exuma. Exuma has five to
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By acquiring the 80,000 square foot portion of the East-West Highway build ing that presently houses the SuperCentre format, he explained that AML Foods will become a real estate owner and thus be able to
‘moves on’ after ex-HQ settlement fails
When VAT was reintro duced on a broader base, really the persons most severely impacted that needed those benefits have effectively been penalised for the better part of nine months because the cost of items went up for them but the needed assistance has not been it’smaybebeen“Maybeimplemented.theycouldhaveforgivenforamonth,aquarter,butnowthreequarters.....You
RISE programme meant lower income Bahami ans had been “penalised” through VAT’s reinstate ment on “breadbasket” foods and medicines when the Davis administration cut the rate to 10 percent from January 1, 2022.
Pelican Bay was accom modating three, and sometimes four, overnight flight crews. It’s now many years since we had an over night flight crew in Grand Bahama. American Air lines was probably the last, and that was probably the last.”Hurricane Dorianrelated devastation interrupted late even ing and night flights into Grand Bahama Inter national Airport from September 2019 onwards, but Mr Alnebeck said the end to evening and early
No overnight flight crews in Freeport for 7-8 years
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AML Foods, which has long been seek ing a new home for its Cost Right brand, has instead reached a deal to acquire the portion of the building that houses its present Solo mon’s SuperCentre. It plans to invest a total $17m in converting that 80,000 square feet into a retail destination housing both Solo mon’s neighborhood grocery concept and Cost Right’s wholesale club format, with the latter relocated from the Town Centre Mall before end-2023 (see other article on Page 1BAcknowledging). that hundreds of exCity Markets staff were depending on the former head office’s sale and subsequent proceeds for their retirement benefits, Mr Watchorn told this newspaper it was “unfortunate” that AML Foods’ suggested
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THE Government’s travel spending yes terday ignited further Opposition attacks after it was revealed that the total $11.8m outlay for the 20212022 fiscal year exceeded Budget allocations by 11.1 percent.Kwasi Thompson, former minister of state for finance in the Minnis administration, questioned
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(66.7 percent) to $11.8m, and exceeded the Budget target by 11.1 percent. Air transportation, inclusive of domestic and international travel, and the repatriation of the ill grew by $2.2m and $0.8m, respectively,” the report said.
A Grand Bahama hotel ier yesterday exposed the depths of the island’s tour ism decline by revealing that no regular commer cial airline flight crew has stayed overnight at his resort for around seven to eightMagnusyears. Alnebeck, Pelican Bay’s general manager, told Tribune Business that the property once served as the regular overnight accommodation
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With inflationary pres sures further fuelling the cost of living crisis, he argued: “More social spending commitments are likely to be required, and we’ve not yet introduced the RISE programme.
• AML Foods
• Fate of key plan asset’s $3.36m sale in court’s hands
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HUNDREDS of City Markets pension ers were yesterday dealt a new blow after efforts to solve the legal quagmire blocking AML Foods’ $3.36m purchase of its former head office failed despite the latter “giving it a real Gavingo”.Watchorn, the BISX-listed food retail and franchise group’s president and chief executive, told Tribune Business it had been left with little choice but to “move on” from its six-year attempt to acquire the East-West Highway property after the outof-court settlement proposed did not receive unanimous acceptance.
which happens to exceed the budgeted amount by 11.1Thepercent.”details were con tained in the Ministry of Finance’s just released report for the 2021-2022 full fiscal year and the fourth quarter, which revealed that travel-related spending and subsistence payments by the Gov ernment had increased by more than two-thirds year-over-year.“Outlaysfor travel and subsistence grew by $4.7m
AML Foods yesterday pledged to “create a real power destination” through a total $17m investment that will place its Solomon’s and Cost Right brands side-by-side at the for mer’s Nassau SuperCentre location.Gavin Watchorn, the BISX-listed food retail and franchise group’s president and chief executive, told Tribune Business that Cost Right’s relocation from the Town Centre Mall to its new home before year-end 2023 will slash costs and “create a lot of efficiencies” by eliminating the rents it is paying for two key New Providence stores.
reallocate current lease expenses. The SuperCen tre format will be dropped, with Solomon’s converted to the neighbourhood food stores that AML Foods is rolling-out nationwide, helping to make way for CostExplainingRight. that the “streamlining” better aligns the Solomon’s store with the direction AML Foods is taking the brand in, Mr Watchorn told this news paper that the general merchandise and clothing presently sold by the Super Centre will be switched to CostPromisingRight. that all staff at both impacted stores will be retained, and that AML Foods will “find a home” elsewhere in the group for any not required at East-West Highway, he added that the property purchase will also enable it to improve “standards” at both outlets.
“While we see an increase in taxes collected from Bahamians, we do not see a correspond ing increase in assistance and relief, in particular, for islands still recovering like Grand Bahama and Abaco,” the east Grand Bahama MP said. “We do, however, see an increase in travel and subsistence
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
AML: $17m will create ‘real power destination’
for as many as four com mercial aviation flight crews. However, this ended “many years” back, and he estimated that Grand Bahama’s lack of hotel room inventory and clearly-defined tour ism product meant it now lagged at fifth or sixth spot in terms of the Bahamian islands attracting the most airlift.Illustrating how far Grand Bahama and Freeport have to travel in reviving their tour ism product, he revealed: “There was a time when
City Markets retirees in fresh pension blow
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Gov’t hit over VAT assistance delays
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THE GOVERNMENT should “naturally expect the criticism” over its fail ure to introduce a key social support initiative in time to protect “persons on the margins” from a broad-based VAT, a banker arguedGowonyesterday.Bowe, Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) chief exec utive, told Tribune Business the delay in relaunching the
Gov’ts $12m travel spend exceeds allocation by 11%
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
The Free National Movement (FNM) oppo sition has frequently hit out at what it seeks to portray as the Davis administration’s excessive travel spending, with large
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why such funds had not been put to better use on post-Hurricane Dorian reconstruction and other pressing taxpayer needs.